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Office of Inspector General |
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| Title: | Illinois Road Test Examiner Jailed For Bribery |
| Date: | August 03, 2001 |
| Type: | Investigation |
| Summary: | John Conti, a State of Illinois road test examiner, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Chicago to 11 months in jail and fined $4,000 for accepting $90,000 in bribes from driving school owners to pass hundreds of unqualified motorists on road exams. Conti’s cooperation in the investigation resulted in the indictment and conviction of four driving school owners and seven other State of Illinois examiners for taking bribes. This was part of the Operation Safe Road joint investigation effort by OIG, FBI, Postal Inspection Service, the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigative Division and Illinois State Police. |