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Kentucky law slams the door on driver's licenses for non-residents without legit papers, but some were sneaking through—until one clerk blew the lid off.
Melissa Moorman, a former Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) clerk, is suing her ex-employers, claiming they gave her the boot for spilling the beans on a dirty scheme. Court documents snagged by Fox News Digital reveal Moorman caught wind in 2024 of two co-workers in the Department of Vehicle Regulation peddling driver's licenses to "nonresidents" like candy, no immigration checks, no tests, just cold, hard cash.
Her lawyers say she got wise when they tried to rope her into the hustle.
"The employees were being paid under the table," Moorman told WDRB News on Monday, her voice steady but sharp. "I immediately let my supervisor know about it."
Moorman dropped a bombshell to WDRB: these co-workers were raking in $200 a pop, four to five times a day, for over two years. Every case she saw? Illegal immigrants. No exceptions.
After she sounded the alarm, the crooked clerks got canned, and the feds swooped in to probe KYTC. Moorman met with investigators in January, learning her own credentials and login were being used without her knowledge. She says her supervisor told her to hand over her information to the newbies while they waited for their own access, a setup that smells like a cover-up.
KYTC fired Moorman the same day she spoke to the feds, but her supervisor, who her lawyers accuse of "mismanagement, fraud, abuse of authority, and violations of law," is still employed at his job.
"I was angry, hurt, and depressed," Moorman told WDRB News, her frustration raw. "I did the right thing. I told the truth. I should not have been fired."
Moorman slapped KYTC with a lawsuit in April, leaning on the Kentucky Whistleblower Act to shield her for exposing the rot. She's demanding her job back, benefits restored, and back pay to make it right. If you ask me, I'd say she should get a back-dated promotion.
"It is tragic that the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet chose to terminate the person that uncovered the fact that hundreds, perhaps thousands of undocumented people were provided Kentucky driver's licenses that they were not qualified to receive," her attorney Garry Adams told Fox News Digital. "The scheme that Melissa Moorman uncovered was putting all Kentuckians that operate or ride in motor vehicles in danger, and she should have been rewarded for her disclosure rather than terminated for it."
Adams didn’t hold back: "This type of behavior where local, state, and even federal governments seem to favor sweeping big problems under the rug, rather than disclosing it, addressing it, and fixing it has got to stop."
Kentucky law is crystal clear: non-U.S. citizens need proof of residency and valid immigration docs for a license. Faking those papers is a one-way ticket to prosecution. Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman didn't mince words, calling the reports "troubling and unacceptable conduct." He added that his office has been "aggressively investigating this potential fraud for some time now" alongside federal law enforcement.
Fox News Digital had reached out to KYTC for comment, but the silence is deafening.
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