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.”
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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