Boston traffic deputy quits after losing his license

By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | February 13, 2007

It seemed rather strange behavior a few weeks ago when the city's deputy commissioner in charge of field operations for the Boston Transportation Department refused to drive anywhere.

His job, after all, is all about driving, according to his job description: planning, guiding, and enforcing traffic flow in Boston.

So city officials began investigating Daniel R. Hofmann and soon discovered that the deputy, a 49-year-old Hyde Park resident, didn't possess one of the most basic requirements of the job: a valid Massachusetts driver's license.

As it turns out, state officials ordered that Hofmann's license be suspended Dec. 18 after they discovered a litany of outstanding fines and license suspensions in New York State, including two convictions for driving while impaired that date to 1999, records show.

Hofmann, who began working at the Transportation Department in 1997 and became deputy commissioner in April 2000, never reported the convictions and suspensions to Boston officials and failed to tell them about the recent suspension in Massachusetts, according to three city officials briefed on the case who declined to be named because they did not have permission to speak publicly about it.

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