In 2023, I reported on a network of people exploiting weak rules in New Jersey and Georgia to illegally sell temporary license plates through sham car dealerships. Yesterday, DOJ announced federal charges against eleven people involved in some of those dealerships: www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
Jesse Coburn
. @nyc.streetsblog.org published the original investigation, which you can read here: www.streetsblogprojects.org/ghost-tags-i...
Two defendants operated dealerships that I wrote about. Neither had much ostensible operations beyond printing tens of thousands of temp tags -- worth millions of dollars on the black market. I spoke to both of them at the time, and they denied selling tags. The feds now say they were:
