HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. - A lawyer for a Long Island man who wants his license plates to proclaim "GETOSAMA" says the state Department of Motor Vehicles has made an informal offer to let him use the vanity plates.
But driver Arno Herwerth says he rejected it because the DMV wouldn't pay his attorney's fees. Lawyer Vincent Amicizia has taken the case pro bono, and Herwerth says he wants to donate the fees to charity.
A DMV spokesman says he can't comment on ongoing litigation.
Herwerth filed a federal complaint after being told to return the plates in November. The DMV cited a rule banning plates that could be considered "obscene, lewd, lascivious, derogatory to a particular ethnic group or patently offensive."
Herwerth says he wants to remind people that Sept. 11 terrorist attack mastermind Osama bin Laden remains at large.
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