Well, not the former Illinois governor that is about to go to prison, but the former Illinois governor before him that is in prison, except this week to attend his wife's funeral over in Kankakee, is in prison for selling CDLs for campaign contributions after he got caught by that accident on I-55 where a piece of scrap metal bounced off of a semi trailer and under a Dodge caravan of a Wisconsin family, a preacher, his wife, and their six children. That piece of metal punctured the Caravan gas tank and it burst into flames before it got stopped. The preacher and his wife were witness' to all six of their children being burned to death. As it turned out, the driver of that semi was an illegal alien that paid his $1,000 under the table, as did many others, to that former governor's campaign fund in trade for a CDL. A simple accident got him caught and I happened to be at the McCook Secretary of States office where many of the CDLs for $1,000 were sold, the day that State Police and Secretary of State Police took their computers, seized, as well as took employees out in handcuffs, including the boss. I remember troopers telling me as that played out over the following months and year that they were going to get him but good for taunting and thumbing his nose at them, and they did finally send him to prison. I remember as they were about to move on him, he made world news by putting himself in the spotlight by putting a moretorium on the death penalty, commuting the sentences on 162 deathrow inmates, some very violent, which got him the key to Paris, France for his stance, and Man of the Year by Amnesty International, so the law could not pounce on him when he knew that they were about to, so he got himself in the limelight to block them. He angered them more. And when they were about to pounce on him again, he pulled another to get himself in the limelight and back them off again, but I forget what that was. But...after he wasn't governor anymore and had no cards to play, they out waited and got him but good, and he now resides in a Federal Prison downstate Terre Haute. But while all of that stuff and the waiting game of the cat biding its time to pounce on the troublesome mouse, coming out in the news about him selling CDLs for $1,000 with truckers than taking them back to their states and having them reregistered in their states away from Illinois, at least 22 states revoked the CDLs of all drivers that convereted their CDLs from Illinois to their states during that time frame, forcing those drivers to have to retest in their states, or no more CDLs.
So how do or did some get CDLs? I just gave you a factual account on one way.
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