By Will Ripley
9News
9News
Posted: 04/23/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT
A driving instructor at the center of an investigation that led to the revocation of hundreds of driver's licenses says he has been accused of issuing fraudulent license paperwork.
Dennis Sieving said Friday he had received threats on his Face book page after about 1,400 former students learned their driver's licenses have been revoked. Letters from the Colorado Department of Revenue began arriving in the mail Thursday.
The letters told drivers, primarily teenagers, they needed to stop driving immediately and surrender their licenses to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Sieving said he was contacted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security two months ago and accused of falsifying paperwork for Burmese students.
Sieving denies the allegations and said he plans to hire an attorney. He said Homeland Security has not contacted him since and to his knowledge, he has not been charged.
"They said the tests were illegal and fraud," said Sieving, referring to the accusations surrounding the Burmese students. Sieving recently resigned as a driving instructor, citing health reasons.
As a result of the investigation, Sieving said the Colorado Department of Revenue revoked the licenses of every student he has instructed for the past two years.
Read more: Colorado revokes hundreds of driver's licenses amid Homeland Security allegations - The Denver Post
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Dennis Sieving said Friday he had received threats on his Face book page after about 1,400 former students learned their driver's licenses have been revoked. Letters from the Colorado Department of Revenue began arriving in the mail Thursday.
The letters told drivers, primarily teenagers, they needed to stop driving immediately and surrender their licenses to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Sieving said he was contacted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security two months ago and accused of falsifying paperwork for Burmese students.
Sieving denies the allegations and said he plans to hire an attorney. He said Homeland Security has not contacted him since and to his knowledge, he has not been charged.
"They said the tests were illegal and fraud," said Sieving, referring to the accusations surrounding the Burmese students. Sieving recently resigned as a driving instructor, citing health reasons.
As a result of the investigation, Sieving said the Colorado Department of Revenue revoked the licenses of every student he has instructed for the past two years.
Read more: Colorado revokes hundreds of driver's licenses amid Homeland Security allegations - The Denver Post
Read The Denver Post's Terms of Use of its content: http://www.denverpost.com/termsofuse
