But J. Suzanne Nash, the FBI agent spearheading the probes into the alleged fraud and Smith's death, did provide some detail when she testified Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Daniel Breen.
Nash said Smith lied several times when confronted the day she and her co-defendants were arrested. Here is what Nash said happened:
A co-worker noticed an upside-down clipboard on Smith's desk and gave it to the FBI agents who were already questioning Smith. The clipboard held the four license applications that are a key part of the government's fraud case.
Smith first told authorities she had authorized issuance of four licenses after the applicants gave her legitimate driver's licenses for other states.
When applicants for Tennessee licenses turn their out-of-state licenses over to examiners, they are all put in one basket to be destroyed later. FBI agents went immediately to the basket and found no licenses under any of the names on the applications Smith processed that day.
Smith then said she had administered the tests required to legitimately get a license. But there were no computer or paper records showing she had done that.
Investigators quickly verified that Smith had entered the information from the forms into state computer databases. The only things lacking were photographs and the issuance of the cards. That was only because the office's camera wasn't working.
This is 4 licenses for 3 men? Was one of them getting a "backup identity"? The other 2 men are charged in the coordination of the scheme.
THP looking for witnesses in license scam death
The Tennessee Highway Patrol needs your eyes and ears to help them solve a critical piece of the puzzle in the license fraud case here in Memphis.
Investigators want to know the timeline that lead up to the crash that killed Katherine Smith. She died in a mysterious car fire over the weekend, a fire that investigators say was arson. Smith's gold Acura Legend collided with a pole on Highway 72 just before one 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning. An interior fire killed Smith.
And now investigators want to hear from anybody who may have seen Smith or her car before the crash happened. "If she stopped and purchased any type of items or maybe stopped and used a public phone to talk to friends or contact someone, then we'd like to go back to that location and see what time she was there," said THP Captain Jimmy Erwin.
Smith, a license examiner, died before she could appear in Federal Court on charges she accepted money from five Middle Eastern men for fake Tennessee driver's licenses.