Word: licensees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rubin remains defiant. "When enough lawyers begin withdrawing from cases instead of promoting falsity, perjury and fraud," he says, "the sooner faith in the criminal-justice system will begin to be restored." Rubin, 61, has never shied from controversy. In 1977 he made headlines when he unsuccessfully sought to have...
But Registry officials said that no license is tamper-proof. "As soon as you make a tamper-proof license someone figures out how to tamper with it," Kathi Connelly, a spokesman, said.
"I don't know that it is a particular problem in Cambridge," said Sgt. Richard Bongiorno, of the Cambridge police. He added that there are no special enforcement operations taken by the police to catch tamperers. "But if people are caught with a tampered license it's a felony."
Last year a 20-year-old student at Westfield State College was arrested for altering licenses for friends for up to $10. An undercover Registry police officer allegedly visited the student for the purpose of buying a license. The student had to pay $525 in fines and court penalties and...
But many fake i.d.'s are confiscated by bar and liquor store owners. Employees receive a $100 bounty for each fake license they bring to police, Locke said.