New Jersey

Multi-State ID Fraud ‘Ringleader' Sentenced to 6 Years

A former northern New Jersey resident who authorities say ran a multistate scheme that provided fake driver's licenses and other documents to illegal aliens has been sentenced to prison.

A federal judge in Newark sentenced Young-Kyu Park to six years in prison on Thursday.

The 58-year-old former resident of Fort Lee was one of nearly two dozen people charged in June 2012. He was living in Los Angeles at the time of his arrest.

The U.S. attorney's office alleges Park obtained blank immigration forms that were then filled out with customers' personal information and used to procure driver's licenses and other forms of identification.

The ring also produced counterfeit documents including passports.

In addition to his prison term, Park was ordered to forfeit $1.2 million.

 

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