Unpaid Parking Ticket? If So, Watch Out!!!

Strapped for cash, New York City will be stepping up dramatically its efforts to get traffic scofflaws to pay over $680 million in unpaid parking fines.  These aggressive tactics include:

• Car and asset seizures
• Suspension of registrations
• Use of collection agencies

Anyone with 5 or more unpaid parking tickets with 12 months will get their registrations suspended.  Previously, the City would prevent motorists with $350 or more in unpaid parking tickets from renewing registrations when they expired.  Driving with a suspended registration is misdemeanor (VTL 512) making the City’s new tactic more severe.

 

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Officer Drops Aggravated Unlicensed Ticket In Exchange For Three Pizza Pies

Police officers are often the butt of doughnut jokes but one Gowanda village police officer prefers pizza instead.  The Erie County District Attorney charges that former cop Jason Miller dismissed an aggravated unlicensed traffic ticket (a misdemeanor for driving when you know or should know you are suspended) in exchange for a “bribe” of three pizzas.

The story got even more bizarre when the officer, then, tried to fake his own shooting by hanging his bullet-proof vest on a tree and shooting it twice.  Miller has pled guilty to official misconduct and can be sentenced to up to a one year.

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