A Brazilian national living in Connecticut was sentenced to nine months in federal prison for helping to obtain fraudulently driver’s licenses for more than 1,000 undocumented immigrants.

Helbert Costa Generoso, 41, who lived in Danbury, was sentenced last month by U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to unlawfully produce and possess with intent to transfer identification documents and one count of furnishing a false passport to another for use in June, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts .

Costa Generoso is subject to deportation after completing his federal sentence, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Costa Generoso was charged along with four others in December 2024. According to court rec

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