The N&O’s Dan Kane details yet more petty, cretinous behavior from the Down East kleptocracy.

This time it is DMV Commissioner George Tatum reaching out to help a good friend save a few hundred bucks on his car property taxes while potentially misleading future buyers of the vehicle as to its actual build-year. In other words, you basic in-bred hillbilly, “let’s pull a fast one” move so beloved for what passes for leadership in Raleigh.

But this one has an added layer of repugnance. When an honest DMV inspector discovered the fraud, someone dispatched two DMV “internal affairs” officers to strip him or his gun and badge and suspend him for unnamed “psychological” problems.

This is straight-up Stalinism ladies and gentlemen. The suspension was quickly undone once word reached NC DOT officials, but that is irrelevant. The level of corruption — moral and official — required for such an act is quite staggering.

Yet more evidence that we need an aggressive RICO prosecution of the ongoing criminal conspiracy which passes for state government.