Two Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles clerks who helped up to 1,000 people obtain fraudulent driver's licenses were sentenced to federal prison terms Friday for document fraud. Consuelo Onate-Banzon, 46, the scheme's ringleader, was sentenced to three years and five months in prison and ordered to forfeit $200,000 in illegal earnings to the government. Her accomplice, Rony Razon, 31, received two years and three months and was ordered to forfeit $100,000. Both pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in September. Onate-Banzon and Razon helped hundreds of people, mostly Hispanic immigrants, obtain licenses over a five-year period. They were arrested in July. Their customers would pay $700 to $2,000 each for the licenses. Prosecutors said the two clerks employed five "runners" who recruited customers and would escort them directly to Onate-Banzon or Razon. There is no evidence that any would-be terrorists are among those who benefited from the scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty said.
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