The trend toward less organized crime influence over public officials could easily take a turn for the worse as non-traditional syndicates seek to gain allies in government and as vast sums of gambling and drug money are used to tempt police and other government officials. New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn L. McKoy described an example of non-traditional organized crime corrupting an important state government function:
… [A]t the state level, we saw in June ’02, the Division of Criminal Justice brought eight indictments against 30 individuals, some of whom were [Division of  Motor Vehicles] employees, where we had brokers from South American and Central American countries who basically bribed DMV employees for false identification documents, and then turned around and sold those for identification documents on the street for financial profit. So I do think that we are vulnerable in those areas, particularly where … DMV clerks … don’t make a lot of money. And if someone approaches them and suggests, “Hey, look, I’ll give you $1,500 if you provide me with some false identification documents, … they do it. And then those documents are sold on the street for maybe five or ten thousand dollars, depending on what the market is asking for at that particular point in time. So I do think that there are some vulnerabilities there. However, with some of the techniques that we’re using to combat this issue, to get into some of the agencies where we see there is a pattern, we’ve been able to successfully root out this, and hopefully, we can eliminate it.