Boston Man Sentenced for Bribing RMV to Give Driver's Licenses to Migrants Who Failed Road Test – New Bedford Guide

“BOSTON – A former driving instructor was convicted yesterday of conspiring to defraud the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) by issuing driver's licenses to applicants who failed a road test.

Ngan Dinh, 48, of Boston, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris to two years of probation, with the first six months served as home confinement with GPS monitoring, fined $4,000 dollars and a forfeiture of $5,450. In March 2024, Dinh pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud.

Dinh, a naturalized U.S. citizen who speaks Vietnamese and some English, handed out business cards to the Vietnamese community. The potential licensees who contacted Dinh were Vietnamese immigrants who did not speak or read English. They relied on Dinh to help them comply with RMV rules and requirements that they did not understand. Instead, Dinh bribed a Brockton RMV road test examiner to falsely report to the RMV that Dinh's clients had passed the road test – when in fact they had not. not done. Some customers didn't even show up for the test.

Customers paid Dinh up to $1,200, but Dinh insisted that all payments be made in cash. Dinh persuaded some customers to pay him such large sums by lying to them. For example, he told some applicants that the RMV was not offering driving tests due to the pandemic, which was false, and that he could get them a license because he was a “certified representative” of the RMV – a non-existent position. Dinh paid the RMV employee a $100 cash bribe for each of his customers and kept the rest of the money for himself.

Acting United States Attorney General Joshua S. Levy, Michael J. Krol, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations New England, and Christopher A. Scharf, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General for the Northeast Region, made the announcement today. Assistant United States Attorneys Christine J. Wichers and Adam W. Deitch of the Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions Unit prosecuted the case.” – Massachusetts Department of Justice.