Brooklyn Judge throws out case against fraudulent driving school instructors
After the U.S. government announced charges in a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) cheating scheme, a Brooklyn federal judge has reconsidered the guilty pleas of two driving school instructors charged, in an unrelated case, with assisting applicants in fraudulently obtaining Commercial Drivers’ Licenses (CDL).
In 2012, Ying Wai Philip Ng, 48, and his wife, Pui Kuen Ng, 49, of Brooklyn were charged with conspiring to help non-English-speaking Chinese immigrants cheat on the written portion of the CDL test.
The charging papers allege that before applicants sat for the written portion of the CDL test, Mr. Ng “provided them with a paging device and a jacket containing a hidden video camera that wirelessly transmitted video images to a video screen in the minivan.” Mr. Ng would then send numbered pages to the applicants indicating the correct answer for each question on the exam.