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OhioBack2Blue

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9. At least he went through DMV processes.... REPUBLICON GOVERNOR GEORGE RYAN (R-IL)
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 07:00 AM
6 hrs ago

...who served as the Governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003, was the central figure in a massive federal "CDL licenses-for-bribes" scandal.

The License-for-Bribes Scheme
The roots of the nationwide scandal began in the 1990s when George Ryan served as the Illinois Secretary of State. Employees inside the Secretary of State's office systematically accepted bribes ranging from $600 to $1,200 from unqualified commercial truck drivers to bypass official testing and illegally grant them CDLs. A significant portion of this bribe money was funneled into Ryan’s gubernatorial campaign fund

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