A Cleveland man has been sentenced to almost four years in prison for directing a fraud ring that sold Ohio driver's licenses to illegal Ukrainian immigrants.
Forty-year-old Vitaly Fedorchuk was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Youngstown to 46 months in prison. Sixteen people have been convicted in the case and two suspects remain at-large.
The investigation centered on the driver's license bureau in Parma, Cleveland's biggest suburb. The government says Ukrainians working at the American embassy in Kiev helped bring immigrants to the U.S. illegally.
The ring charged up to $3,000 for driver licenses issued with little or no documentation.
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