North Carolina officials are looking into allegations of corrupt behavior by enforcement officers in a branch of the state Division of Motor Vehicles.
According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, some of the allegations are the same as ones in a 1986 investigation.
The newspaper says a 1986 confidential memo by a top DMV official alleged that officers at weigh stations in Buncombe and Henderson counties accepted payoffs and gifts, campaigned for political favorites and failed to cite "grossly overweight" trucks owned by influential construction and paving companies.
According to the paper, the State Bureau of Investigations turned a report on similar investigation into the state attorney general's office last year. Parts of that report were leaked, but it has not been released publicly.
An October lawsuit filed by a former DMV enforcement officer in the western part of the state makes claims very similar to those in the 1986 memo, according to the paper. David Ricky Brookshire says he was fired for being a whistle-blower. He says supervisors encouraged enforcement officers to accept gifts from paving companies, apparently in exchange for laxer enforcement.
According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, some of the allegations are the same as ones in a 1986 investigation.
The newspaper says a 1986 confidential memo by a top DMV official alleged that officers at weigh stations in Buncombe and Henderson counties accepted payoffs and gifts, campaigned for political favorites and failed to cite "grossly overweight" trucks owned by influential construction and paving companies.
According to the paper, the State Bureau of Investigations turned a report on similar investigation into the state attorney general's office last year. Parts of that report were leaked, but it has not been released publicly.
An October lawsuit filed by a former DMV enforcement officer in the western part of the state makes claims very similar to those in the 1986 memo, according to the paper. David Ricky Brookshire says he was fired for being a whistle-blower. He says supervisors encouraged enforcement officers to accept gifts from paving companies, apparently in exchange for laxer enforcement.
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