Michigan GOP Senate Candidate’s Legacy Includes Fake IDs

Former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land talks with a fellow Republican at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island, Mich. on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Land is the only GOP candidate running... Former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land talks with a fellow Republican at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island, Mich. on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Land is the only GOP candidate running for U.S. Senate after others decided not to run. (AP Photo/David Eggert) MORE LESS
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During her time in office then-Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land (R-MI) promised to cut down on identification fraud but the opposite seems to have happened.

Land’s Senate campaign now argues that during her time in office she was successful in “rooting out fraudulent activity” in Michigan. But while she was secretary of State the federal government noted that Michigan had become an “epicenter of identification fraud nationwide” according to The Washington Examiner.

A pair of department clerks who worked while Land was in office were arrested in 2005 for accepting bribes for Michigan I.D.s., the Examiner also reported.

Michigan became “one of the easiest places” to get a fake I.D. during Land’s time in office, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Brian Moskowitz in a 2004 Associated Press article highlighted by the Examiner.

“We saw an alarming amount of … cases where groups were bringing criminals or illegal aliens to Michigan for the sole purpose of obtaining a Michigan driver’s license,” Moskowitz said in the article.

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