Nassau County prosecutors charged a father and son with filing forged insurance documents while operating a Queens-based school bus company in Valley Stream.

Malik Turnage Sr., 52, and Malik Turnage Jr., 27, were charged with four felony counts of filing a false instrument while they operated Cheese Bus Inc. and served the Valley Stream Central High School District from 2019 to 2024, prosecutors said. They also were charged with two misdemeanor counts of insurance fraud.

Prosecutors said the Turnage Jr. submitted forged certificates of insurance to the district in October 2023 after the district asked for updated liability insurance from bus contractors.

"These defendants were trusted with safely transporting young students, but they chose to allegedly cut corners and put lives at risk,

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