Speaking of fake ID .... The super-lucrative LA Tow Truck deal has fallen, in many parts of the city, totally into ... of all things ... Iranian hands.
The multiple fake IDs and an insurance pool is the way they work it. Naturally drivers need ID, and naturally the vehicles have to be insured.
The licenses are fakes. The insurance is real enough, but one policy covers all the trucks from one or two operations: if there's an accident or a claim, they radio in the info and the insurance broker who's in on the scam, fills in the blanks on an open policy.
They communicate by radio in Farsi. They have dominated the business by keeping their costs low. Their drivers look like really scary dudes... betcha there's a lot of 'student visas' that need a look-over here. It's gotten so bad, that illegal Mexican immigrants may be taking the illegal Iranians to court for illegal job discrimination!Hopefully, at least the judge will be a legal resident.
Every automobile-based scam in LA has been rather neatly divided up by Middle Easterners of one stripe or another, from salvage titles, to used cars, to shipping hot SUV's to the Vladivostok market.
This is apparently a world-wide thing. Dodi Fayed's Mercedes .... the one in which Princess Di copped it ... was a salvage title car!
Yo, I thought you two should know.
Francohio: it may also be noted that a free enterprise system (the USA) is extremely easy to penetrate with cover "proprietary front companies" (eg a tow truck company) since they can be secretly subsidized by the host nation. That is to say, your costs will always be lower, and you will never go out of business, if Iran is secretly funneling cash to you.
I'd also look closely at POL shipping firms. You don't need explosives if you can put 8,000 gallons of high octane gasoline into the lobby of a corporate HQ building at 75 MPH.