Dallas, TX – Feds Arrest Man That Helped Hundreds Illegally Get Texas Driver Licenses

Dallas, TX – A man who has assisted more than 350 individuals mostly from New York in fraudulently obtain a Texas driver licenses surrendered to federal authorities, after a federal grand jury in Dallas returned a 32-count indictment charging Isaac Banai. Banai pled not guilty to the charges. He was released on bond.

Isaac Banai, 44, was born in Israel and first entered the United States on a non-immigrant tourist visa. He later married a United States citizen , Banai owned and operated a taxi service in Dallas, in which he used one or two Lincoln Town Cars to transport passengers from DFW International Airport to Dallas.

According to the indictment, Banai assisted well over 350 individuals to fraudulently obtain easy to gain Texas driver licenses and about a half of these were illegally in the United States.
Banai ran advertisements in an Israeli newspaper, published in New York City, that solicited the business of foreign nationals illegally in the United States. He convinced foreign nationals living in NY and NJ to travel to Texas, at their own expense, to obtain a driver license because these individuals could not obtain a social security number or a valid state driver license from the driver license agency in the state where they actually resided.

Once they were in Texas, he would pick them up at the airport using his taxi service and take them to a motel, usually a Motel 6 in Dallas, Texas, where they would stay one or two days. He offered to help the illegal aliens prepare for both the written and driving part of their driver license testing and would transport them to a Department of Driver License Office to apply for the driver license. On average, he received $500 from each illegal alien he assisted in obtaining the license. After they completed the requirements, each applicant returned to their residence.
On the application form, they falsely listed the motel address where they were staying as their residence, and provided the motel’s phone number as their actual phone number. The Texas Department of Public Service mailed the driver licenses to that address. Banai made arrangements with the motels to hold all the incoming mail addressed to the illegal aliens staying at that motel and then collected the Texas driver licenses that were mailed to the illegal’s at the motels. He then mailed the licenses to the actual residence of each of the illegal applicants.