Former Kentucky Clerk Claims Illegal Aliens Paid for Driver’s Licenses ‘Under the Table’
This happens across the country. These schemes need to be called out.
Melissa Moorman, a former clerk at a Kentucky driver’s license branch, told WDRB that illegal aliens paid $200 “under the table” to receive a driver’s license.
I wonder how often this happens in other places:
Melissa Moorman claims the scheme happened four or five times a day for at least two years at multiple branches across the state. According to a whistleblower lawsuit, when Moorman alerted the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to the scam, she was fired.
“The employees were being paid under the table,” Moorman told WDRB News. “I immediately let my supervisor know.”
Moorman’s whistleblower complaint is fascinating. She told the court how her supervisor forced her to share her computer credentials with new workers who did not have them.
Moorman complied, which means many people had her computer credentials.
It turns out two employees used her credentials to pull off the scheme:
In fall of 2024, Moorman learned that Aariel Matthews (“Matthews”) and Donnita Wilson (“Wilson”), KYTC workers at the time, were creating and providing documents such as driver’s licenses and permits to nonresidents without running the proper screenings concerning immigration status, and they were instead collecting the money that was supposed to be for the screenings and pocketing it.
Moorman learned about this because she was invited to join in on the scam.
Moorman told WDRB that she “was asked to bring certain customers” in who did not have to sign in.
The people had social security cards and birth certificates that looked real but were fake.
Moorman went to her boss:
Instead, Moorman promptly disclosed and reported the scam to Sparks.
Moorman’s disclosure and report of the aforementioned suspected waste, fraud, abuse of authority, and violations of law and statute occurring within and in the course of KYTC’s operation to Sparks, an appropriate authority, prompted a federal investigation into the matter.
The authorities knew Moorman did not participate because log-ins occurred on days she didn’t work.
Moorman also showed investigators her text messages, which showed that Sparks told her to give people her login credentials.
“I start getting these emails saying ‘Are you doing this? Are you doing this?'” Moorman explained to WDRB. “I’m not there for the day. So things start kind of coming together. I’m like ‘What’s going on?'”
The two employees lost their jobs in 2024.
A detective interviewed Moorman at work in January 2025.
Moorman lost her job that same day.
KYTC and the company Moorman contracted through, Quantam, decided to terminate her employment.
“I came to work, and my computer was turned off … that was it,” Moorman said in her interview. “It was a gut punch. I was still in my supervisor training… It was a very good job for me.”
By the way, Moorman believes “Sparks still has his job despite the mismanagement, fraud, abuse of authority, and violations of law and statute in which he engaged that Moorman disclosed and reported.”
I wonder how much Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear knew because WDRB revealed in April that people have been obtaining illegal driver’s licenses due to the delay of issuing the Real ID licenses:
In April, Beshear admitted in an interview with WDRB that there was an ongoing fraud investigation related to driver’s licensing in Kentucky but when asked if it had anything to do with immigration he said he wasn’t “aware.”
If accurate, that means the state’s top executive was unaware for at least seven months despite Moorman’s letter in October 2024, repeated inquiries from WDRB in early 2025 and her lawsuit filed in April 2025. That timeline raises questions about Beshear’s denial.
WDRB is now challenging KYTC’s refusal to release 2,300 withheld records in court, arguing the public has a right to know:
- Whether KYTC followed the law
- What steps were taken to investigate
- What will happen to people who received licenses in error
- Who — if anyone — will be held accountable
So, yeah, this fraud goes beyond illegal aliens. Way too many first-timers received a license without taking a written test.
Sources whispered to WDRB that many people who had scores in the system never took the test.
The transportation department had to send “1,546 letters notifying people of ‘irregularities’ in the license they received and 736 letters notifying drivers of hearings on the matter as of March 17.”
Other States
Yes, it does happen in other states.
January 2025: Authorities arrested and charged two people in California for a scheme that helped illegal aliens from Asia receive a driver’s license or state identification card.
June 2025: Authorities arrested eight people in Florida for allegedly participating in a scheme to get illegal aliens a driver’s license. The number includes two DMV employees who reportedly issued the licenses for money.
June 2025: Connecticut residents faced charges for allegedly getting 600 illegal licenses for illegal aliens in Massachusetts and New York. It included driver’s licenses, a passport, and identification documents.
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Comments
Excuse me for a moment while I go borrow Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face…
For me it’s too early. We only know 1% percent of what is going on. I will wait until I know 5% before I put on a shocked face.
If I were president for a day I would shut off all immigration entirely for ten years.
I would also confiscate all assets of illegal aliens found in the country, sentence them to a mandatory ten years at hard labor after which I would deport them permanently.
And if you’re caught employing one, you get the same punishment.
If I were president for a day I would pardon:
My dear and precious son of all crimes at all times.
All members of my family along with their spouses.
Commute sentences of 37 death row inmates
Anthony Fauci
Mark Milley
Issue 4,165 commutations
Issue a collective pardon of 6,500 individuals
Members of the House committee involved in Jan 6th
Gerald Glenn Lundergan
Ernest William Cromartie
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir
Don Leonard Scott, Jr.
Kemba Smith Pradia
the janitor
the maid
and the mouse in the closet
I would shut it off indefinitely. To catch illegal aliens, offer a bounty! Form citizen militias to hunt them down. All who resist get shot on the spot. We face an invasion, the members of which now constitute a Fifth Column along with their allies in government and business. If we want to keep the America our founders gave us, we now have to fight for it. Learn your history. Learn how to use your weapons, and practice, practice, practice.
you get three out of four.
DO NOT sentence them to any time here. That COSTS we taxpaying citizens tens of thousands of dollars per inmate per year.
Round them up, pile them aboad a rrattly old schoolbus with no AC, drrive that bus to the border with Mehico, and force march them across the line. Then we’re done with them.
Happened in RI I would guess 10-15 years ago at the RIDMV.
My recollection is she wasn’t selling the licenses but letting illegals get them anyway which, in RI, let’s them vote.
She wasn’t fired but transferred to a different state position.
fools
ca and others were just handing them out at one time
but hey,,,denita lakusha has to earn her fight the power credentials
That they did it for so little money makes it even worse in my eyes. Bad enough to sell out your country but to do it for next to nothing is inexcusable.
Right from the Illinois playbook — 30 years ago. https://abc7.com/archive/8974745/ Have to wonder if any of those Kentucky licenses were “REAL ID” licenses.
Prosecution and maximum sentencing for each instance running consecutively not currently and certainly no sob stories from the guilty parties to tug heartstrings an get a lesser/softer sentence. The issuance of State ID/DL is far too critical to our society to go easy. Only ruthless prosecution and imposing draconian penalties will work to deter this. If they get a wrist slap it devalues the severity of the crime.
One finds this kind of corruption as SOP in Mexico, and other Third World Countries. The more immigration, both legal and illegal, we get, the more we will become like the Third World in our morality and functioning. Of course, it’s all about the lust for cheap labor by business and individuals. While I am Jewish, I greatly respect and borrow from Christianity. I love the poetry and wisdom in the King James version of the New Testament. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus asserted: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Taking bribes is serving mammon.
I will only disagree on the labor. It’s not only for cheap labor. Nor is it just for votes.
Those might be the reasons for many, but for the top tier folks involved, it’s to destroy the US as an “exceptional” nation in the eyes of its citizens and residents. Once the individualism of America is sufficiently diluted, it’s easy to usher in globalism.
Since it’s the DMV I wonder if they also slow walked all the applications from illegal aliens too. Nahhhh, Probably got the highest priority,.
This fake news. Biden really did get 80+ million votes and none of them were illegal
What I find interesting is that illegals clearly have no difficulty in obtaining fraudulent ID, but black people apparently haven’t got the brains or wherewithal to obtain even free state identification, which is why Voter ID is so vigorously opposed by Dems.
I wonder why the word “retaliation” hasn’t been used anywhere in this article? Aren’t there whistleblower protection laws in KY? They exist pretty uniformly, I thought. And what they did is obviously retaliation, under those law.
Or… is it because she was a contractor?
Or… did she have some blemish on her record they could cite to get around whistleblower protections?
Good question about contractors. Stepping back a bit why are contractors/private companies performing functions that grant access to DL/State ID database in the first place? I don’t wanna near any whining from the folks who are supposed to be overseeing these processes such as County Clerk and/or Probate Judge claiming they didn’t know unless that’s part of their plea deal for malfeasance. Then there’s the State level officials who are charged with monitoring all these processes, they shouldn’t be allowed to skate either.
Because hiring a contractor company allows the state to avoid the hassle of recruiting, training, retaining, and eventually delivering a pension to low-level retail staff. Plus, it’s much easier to discipline a contractor than a state employee. You simply tell the contracting company “This person does not meet the needs of the contract. Find a replacement.” and the contracting company has to deal with it.
Access to the DL/State ID database is expected of contractors as it is necessary for them to fulfill the requirements of the contract.
I think we’re seeing the story unfold before the claims of retaliation get filed. I assume that will be Next Week’s Episode.
It must be a volume thing for a few at the top. Just imagine trying to bribe any government clerk, anywhere, for a measly $200, and see what happens to you.
Pencil neck Beshear will do nothing about this. He is too busy running for an office he will never occupy. The Oval Office.
Therre is an end run around such corrruption, but I think I will be “aslep” forr many decades bevore it is put into place.
Mandate nationwide that states may issue driving licenses to non-citizens ONLY provided that the background colour rof the physical license card itself be a distinctive and obvious colour, say, mlight blue orr green.. pick one to use nationwide.
That does an end rrun around the need for all those driving have a goverrnment issued card, but provides a clear method of denying them the ability o register to vote, as their ID is green and thus proves non-ciizenship.