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For Immediate Release:  
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March 13, 2009  

Division of Criminal Justice
609-292-4791

Office of The Attorney General
- Anne Milgram, Attorney General
Division of Criminal Justice
- Deborah L. Gramiccioni, Director

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Plumstead Man Sentenced to State Prison for Trying to Bribe MVC Clerk to Issue Driver’s Licenses to Unauthorized Persons

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TRENTON – Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni announced that an Ocean County man was sentenced today for attempting to bribe a Motor Vehicle Commission clerk at the Medford Motor Vehicle Agency to issue driver’s licenses to unauthorized persons.

According to Director Gramiccioni, Kenan Yilmaz, 36, of Plumstead, was ordered by Superior Court Judge Thomas S. Smith Jr. in Burlington County to serve five years in state prison. Yilmaz pleaded guilty on Dec. 15 to bribery, a charge contained in an April 29, 2008 indictment.

Judge Smith also sentenced Yilmaz to three years in prison for an unrelated possession of OxyContin charge brought by the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office. That sentence will run concurrently with the five-year sentence, and both will run concurrently with a five-year sentence imposed on Jan. 16 for charges of possession with intent to distribute heroin within 500 feet of a public housing facility as well as possession of OxyContin, both of which were brought by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.

An investigation by the State Police and the Motor Vehicle Commission determined that between January and March 2008, Yilmaz repeatedly approached a clerk at the Medford Motor Vehicle Agency and attempted to bribe her to issue driver’s licenses to customers who did not have the necessary six points of identification. Yilmaz offered the clerk amounts ranging from $1,500 to $5,000 for each driver’s license he attempted to broker. In each instance, the clerk refused to accept the money and refused to issue the license.

The case was investigated by Detective Sgt. Mark Wilhelm of the State Police Auto Unit Document Fraud Squad, working with Investigator Steven Crane of the Motor Vehicle Commission.

Deputy Attorney General Christine Hoffman represented the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes Bureau at the sentencing.

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