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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Updated: Feb. 18, 2010 | 10:04 a.m.
A former Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles employee on Tuesday was sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty to bribery Nov. 30.
Marilyn D. Millender, 54, also will spend six months in a federal halfway house for her role in selling identification documents to illegal immigrants.
"Imagine a county commissioner taking a bribe for a zoning variance you don't want. You'd want him to get jail time," U.S. District Judge Robert Jones said. "This is particularly offensive because you were a person of trust in the government."
A federal grand jury indicted Millender in 2008 after an FBI and DMV investigation. The bribes occurred in the second half of 2007 after she had been on the job more than four years.
Jones did not accept probation officials' recommendation that sought only probation for Millender, saying he has sentenced to prison other defendants charged with identical crimes.
Jones said he sent a DMV employee to prison for more than six years. That worker had accepted more than $100,000 in bribes, and the DMV canceled hundreds of licenses and ID cards.
Millender by comparison collected less than $4,000, resulting in about eight cancellations. Jones was compassionate.
"I express my love for you," he said. "You are a particularly sympathetic defendant."
Millender traveled from Pittsburgh to attend the hearing. Jones accepted a suggestion from defense attorney Monique Kirtley, who asked that Millender be sentenced to a halfway house rather than a federal prison.
Kirtley noted Millender did not seek out a co-conspirator to sell the documents or set the price of the bribes. Millender didn't have a criminal record and hasn't been able to find a job since she was indicted in 2008.
"She's very remorseful," Kirtley said.
Jones gave the woman six months to surrender to a halfway house in the Pittsburgh area. He also issued a $1,000 fine. In exchange for her guilty plea, the government agreed to dismiss a charge of making false statements to the FBI when the investigation began.
Millender broke down when given the opportunity to address the court.
"I'm not sure how this happened," she said in a whisper. "I just want to get a job and start my life all over again."
Contact Doug McMurdo at dmcmurdo@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-8135.
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Let's see, whatever happened to the Victim's Beneficiary Whatever Whatever....that was stealing victims funds and giving them to her family?
This verdict says CRIME PAYS.
Can you believe this women "I'm not sure how this happened," she said in a whisper. "I just want to get a job and start my life all over again." Talk about a moron, I tell you how it happen, your just a greedy crook and anyone who would hire you would have to be nuts. The Judge is not much better, six months in a halfway house, give me a break, enough helping these poor illegals that don't belong here in the first place..
Joe C, I have a surprise for you. Federal judges like Jones are not elected. They are appointed and are "above" being subject to the norms of judicial prudence. Thank Harry Reid if you don't like NV federal judges' rulings and sentencing.
Judge Jones is a name to remember come election time.
Sure this criminal is remorseful she was caught, the damage done to this country allowing illegals to vote, drive and displace citizens for jobs, receive state/federal benefits etc is astronomical.
She should have gotten at least five years and by the way the real ID act will make these types of crimes by workers in the DMV much harder to commit not easier.
In every city across the nation there are people like Millender. Add the other fake or stolen ID available on street black market and this is a serious offence. She should have received at least five years.