A driving college supervisor who was convicted within the Mass State Police bribery scandal has been sentenced to federal jail.
Scott Camara, 44, will face one month behind bars for his function within the scheme to falsify information by giving passing scores to 4 Business Driver’s License (CDL) candidates who didn’t take the CDL expertise check as required by federal regulation.
Camara, who’s from Rehoboth, additionally pleaded responsible to perjury for mendacity to a federal grand jury.
His month in jail will likely be adopted by one yr of supervised launch.
The Massachusetts U.S. Legal professional’s workplace was searching for a sentence of 10 months in jail, one yr of supervised launch, and a positive of $5,500.
Final yr, Camara was charged in a 74-count indictment together with 5 others within the conspiracy and associated schemes. The defendants included Gary Cederquist, a buddy of Camara, who was the sergeant answerable for the Mass State Police’s CDL unit.
“He (Camara) knew the requirements of a CDL skills test, and knew why the test was difficult – because putting unqualified drivers of heavy trucks and buses on the road risks public safety,” the feds wrote of their sentencing memo.
In accordance with the charging paperwork, Camara conspired with Cederquist to present passing scores to 4 MSP troopers who had utilized for Class A CDLs, however who didn’t really take the required CDL expertise check.
“More than most CDL holders, Mr. Camara knew the risks involved in letting unqualified applicants get their CDLs,” the feds wrote. “He put his friendship with Cederquist ahead of the dangers he knew about when he conspired to falsify records enabling four unqualified troopers to receive their Class A CDLs.”
The check takers got preferential therapy by Cederquist, who falsely reported that every trooper took and handed a Class A expertise check. Nevertheless in actuality, Camara drove across the testing website with every of the 4 troopers in a truck cab — which didn’t qualify as a Class A automobile as a result of it didn’t have an hooked up trailer.
Neither Cederquist or another member of the CDL unit administered a expertise check to the troopers.
Camara crammed out parts of every trooper’s Highway Check Software with false info, together with the make, mannequin and registration for an absent trailer, in addition to the “Sponsor Information” part — through which Camara falsely claimed to be the sponsor for every of the troopers.
Camara additionally pleaded responsible to perjury for false statements made to a federal grand jury. Testifying beneath oath earlier than the grand jury, Camara falsely claimed that he had neither crammed out the automobile and sponsor info sections of three of the troopers’ CDL Highway Check Purposes, nor signed the kinds.
All CDL recipients recognized as not certified through the course of this investigation have been reported to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Automobiles.
Check necessities for CDLs are established by the Federal Motor Provider Security Administration, which is a part of the U.S. Division of Transportation.
The CDL expertise check is a demanding, in-person check that consists of three segments: Car Inspection, through which an applicant is examined on their information of the automobile; Fundamental Management Expertise, through which an applicant is examined on their capacity to carry out sure maneuvers; and the Highway Check, through which an applicant is examined on their capacity to drive a business automobile on an open roadway.
