Two people from Brockton have agreed to plead guilty to charges that they improperly issued passing test scores to individuals at the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Brockton.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says that 43-year-old Mia Cox-Johnson, a former manager of the RMV service center in Brockton, allegedly took money in exchange for agreeing to give customers passing scores on their multiple-choice learner’s permit tests even if they did not pass.
She allegedly told the customers to request a paper test instead of taking the test on the RMV computer and she then scored these customers’ paper tests.
According to the charging documents, 61-year-old Estevao Semedo, the owner of a driving school, allegedly paid a road test examiner to misrepresent that certain driver’s license applicants had passed their road test when in fact they had not, some of whom didn’t even show up to take the test.
The RMV then mailed driver’s licenses to unqualified applicants.
Cox-Johnson was charged with two counts of extortion under color of official right and one count of conspiring to commit extortion.
Semedo was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says that plea hearings have not yet been scheduled by the court.
