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“The employees were being paid under the table,” Moorman told WDRB News. “I immediately let my supervisor know.”
She says groups of undocumented immigrants would come into the office together and be handed licenses or permits on the spot — no written test, no road test, no questions asked. “It happened up to five times a day,” Moorman said.
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The operation, Moorman claims, relied on forged paperwork — Social Security cards, birth certificates — that looked legitimate enough to fool the system. These fake documents allowed unvetted individuals to slip past Homeland Security checks.
Moorman says she realized something was seriously wrong when suspicious transactions started showing up under her name — even on days she wasn’t at work.
“I start getting these emails saying, ‘Are you doing this?’” she recalled. “I’m not there for the day. So things start coming together. I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’”
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In October 2024, Moorman and her supervisor submitted a letter to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) outlining the fraud in detail. Later that year, the two employees she accused were reportedly terminated.
But when a detective interviewed her at work in January 2025, she says her life was turned upside down. Just hours later, she was fired.
Public records reviewed by WDRB reveal KYTC mailed more than 1,500 warning letters to drivers stating their licenses had been issued “in error” and were “invalid.” Those drivers were told to surrender them or face prosecution.
Even more alarming — the state is withholding over 2,300 additional records tied to the scandal, claiming “ongoing investigations” prevent disclosure.
Despite the magnitude of the alleged scheme, Democrat Governor Andy Beshear appears to be downplaying the story. In April 2025, when asked if the case involved illegal immigration, he claimed he wasn’t “aware.”
That’s hard to believe. The governor’s office received a whistleblower letter months earlier, in October 2024, and Kentucky news outlets had repeatedly asked about it in early 2025. The paper trail makes it clear this wasn’t a new revelation.
What began as one woman’s refusal to join a shady operation has now turned into a full-scale political scandal — one that raises serious questions about Kentucky’s licensing system, state oversight, and whether politics is getting in the way of justice.
