Man sentenced for helping to give passing CDL skills test scores to four Massachusetts State Police troopers who did not take exam

This week, a man was sentenced to prison for conspiring to give passing Commercial Driver’s License skills test to several Massachusetts State Police (MSP) troopers who did not take the test.

On September 8, 2025, Scott Camara, 44, was sentenced to one month in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.

In January 2024, Camera pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to falsify records and one count of perjury making false statements to a federal grand jury in May 2023.

Camera was a truck driving school manager, according to a report from Boston.com.

Officials say that in October 2021, “Camara conspired with then-MSP Sergeant Gary Cederquist to give passing scores to four MSP troopers who had applied for Class A CDLs, but who did not actually take the required CDL skills test.”

The four MSP CDL Unit troopers were responsible for administering CDL skills tests.

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office:

“The test takers were given preferential treatment by Cederquist, who falsely reported that each trooper took and passed a Class A skills test. In reality Camara drove around the testing site with each of the four troopers in a truck cab which did not qualify as a Class A vehicle because it did not have an attached trailer, and neither Cederquist nor any other member of the CDL Unit administered a skills test to the troopers. Camara filled out portions of each trooper’s Road Test Application with false information, including the make, model and registration for an absent trailer, as well as the “Sponsor Information” section, in which Camara falsely claimed to be the sponsor for each of the troopers.“

Camara also falsely claimed that he had neither filled out the vehicle and sponsor information sections of three of the troopers’ CDL Road Test Applications, nor signed the forms, when he testified under oath before the grand jury, officials say.

Camera was charged as part of a larger 74-count indictment along with five others. The indictment involved MSP CDL Unit troopers who conspired to give passing road skills test scores to dozens of unqualified CDL applicants in exchange for bribes that included beverages and candy.

Several others have been convicted or sentenced in connection with this scheme, including:

• Former Trooper Calvin Butner — sentenced to three months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release with the first three months in home confinement.
• Former Trooper Perry Mendes — sentenced to one month in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release with the first two months on home confinement.
• Civilian co-defendant Eric Mathison — sentenced to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
• Former Trooper Gary Cederquist — convicted of two counts of conspiracy to commit extortion, one count of extortion, six counts of honest services mail fraud, three counts of conspiracy to falsify records, 19 counts of falsification of records and 17 counts of false statements. Cederquist is scheduled to be sentenced on September 29, 2025.

All unqualified CDL recipients have been reported to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.