A federal judge has sentenced a former driving instructor from Massachusetts who gave out licenses to those who didn’t pass — or even take — their driving tests, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts said Friday.
Ngan Dinh, 48, of Boston, was sentenced to probation with the first six months to be served as home confinement with GPS monitoring, a fine of $4,000, and a $5,450 forfeiture, the office said.
Dinh, a naturalized U.S. citizen who speaks Vietnamese and some English, enlisted customers by handing out business cards to the Vietnamese community.
Most of the people Dinh worked with were Vietnamese immigrants who did not understand English. Therefore, these individuals needed Dinh’s help to understand the rules and requirements of the RMV, officials said.
However, Dinh bribed a road test examiner at the Brockton RMV to convince the RMV that Dinh’s customers had passed their driving tests when they did …