Felix Mamedov has been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Chicago, IL, to $50,000 restitution and four months' home detention for taking bribes to help unqualified applicants obtain commercial driver's licenses. Many of the applicants were of Eastern European descent with poor English skills.

For $2,000 apiece, Mamedov and partner Lech Rzedzian would drive CDL applicants from Chicago to Florida to obtain their licenses, according to the DOT's Office of Inspector General. Jose Carranza, an employee of 3S Trucking Inc., a Florida truckdriving school and state-certified third-party testing facility, received $400 for each applicant he fraudulently passed on the practical portion of the test. During testing, many of the applicants never got behind the wheel of a truck.