Hildeberto Salinas of Carlstadt was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday for acting as a broker in a conspiracy involving a former clerk in the Lodi Motor Vehicle Agency to illegally sell New Jersey digital driver’s licenses to unauthorized persons.
Salinas, 44, was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine by state Superior Court Judge James J. Guida in Hackensack. Salinas pleaded guilty on March 19 before Judge Patrick J. Roma to second-degree charges of bribery and conspiracy. Deputy Attorney General Debra Conrad prosecuted the case.
In pleading guilty, Salinas admitted that he brokered sales of digital driver’s licenses which were issued out of the Lodi agency to individuals who did not have the required six points of identification. On March 12, a former clerk who participated in the scheme, Anne Marie Manfredonia, 44, of Little Ferry, pleaded guilty to second-degree conspiracy and third-degree tampering with public records before Roma. The state is recommending Manfredonia be sentenced to four years in prison, including two years of parole ineligibility. She will also be permanently barred from public employment in New Jersey. Manfredonia is scheduled to be sentenced on May 10.
