A former supervisor of a Brockton Registry of Motor Vehicles location in Brockton pleaded responsible to giving out passing check scores to those that failed in the event that they bribe her.
Mia Cox-Johnson, 43, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of extortion underneath shade of official proper and one rely of conspiring to commit extortion. U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper has scheduled sentencing for July 20, when Cox-Johnson may very well be sentenced to as much as 20 years in jail.
Cox-Johnson was criminally charged in federal court docket in Boston on March 2, however she accepted a plea settlement she reviewed the day earlier than, based on the date on the signature traces of the settlement filed with the court docket.
According to the charging doc, an applicant, recognized within the doc as “Individual A,” for a Massachusetts learner’s allow had taken the check within the applicant’s “primary language six times on the computer and had failed each time.”
One of the co-conspirators instructed one other that there was an individual on the Brockton RMV — Cox-Johnson — “who could help Individual A pass their learner’s permit test in exchange for money.”
On Dec. 18, 2018, the plan went down: The co-conspirator slipped Cox-Johnson $1,000 money and, in flip, Cox-Johnson, who was accountable for grading paper learner’s allow exams, issued an English-language check and marked it as passing. That means the six-time failure acquired a brand new learner’s allow and Cox-Johnson had some money.
Ten months later, somebody was having hassle getting a industrial driver’s learner’s allow, which requires 80% appropriate solutions on a multiple-choice check of economic automobile normal information.
On Oct. 21, 2019, one other co-conspirator gave Cox-Johnson $200 and Cox-Johnson scored the failed industrial learner’s allow check as passing.
Cox-Johnson was charged together with Estevao Semedo, 61, additionally of Brockton — the proprietor of a driving college — who was charged with one rely of conspiracy to commit sincere companies mail fraud. According to prior Herald reporting, Semedo has additionally agreed to plead responsible.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”