LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) – A southwest Kansas driving school owner has
been sentenced to eight months in prison for accepting money in
exchange for passing grades and commercial driver’s license
certificates.
Fifty-eight-year-old Lyle Seitter of Liberal also must serve
probation and pay restitution. Seitter has pleaded guilty to felony
counts of commercial bribery and making a false writing and a
misdemeanor count of unlawful use of a driver’s license.
Kansas Department of Revenue agents arrested Seitter in December
after an undercover operation. Authorities allege a fraudulent
passing grade and certificate to bypass Kansas driver’s license
skills testing were obtained at Seitter’s Liberal business, The
Driving School.