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10-26-2014, 01:07 PM
A red light camera at the intersection of Sylvan and Coffee in Modesto, California.
Cyrus Farivar
One of the three defendants indicted two months ago on federal corruption charges stemming from a major contract between Chicago and a major red light camera vendor will now plead guilty.
According to a new filing submitted to the federal court in Chicago on Wednesday, former Redflex contractor Martin O’Malley intends to appear before the court in early December to formalize his guilty plea. While the document does not explicitly say so, it’s likely that O’Malley also intends to testify against his co-defendants.
This marks the first guilty plea in a high-level case involving Redflex. Since losing the Chicago contract as a result of this corruption scandal, Redflex’s 2013 pre-tax profits in its North American division (its corporate parent is an Australian company) have plummeted over 33 percent—from $3.4 million in the first half of 2013, to $2.28 million in the second half.
O’Malley had been paid $2 million for his services, which had he been an employee would have made him the highest-paid. But according to prosecutors, much of that money was funneled to John Bills, a former managing deputy commissioner at the Department of Transportation, and a longtime friend of O’Malley’s.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/high-paid-consultant-to-plead-guilty-in-chicago-red-light-camera-case/
Cyrus Farivar
One of the three defendants indicted two months ago on federal corruption charges stemming from a major contract between Chicago and a major red light camera vendor will now plead guilty.
According to a new filing submitted to the federal court in Chicago on Wednesday, former Redflex contractor Martin O’Malley intends to appear before the court in early December to formalize his guilty plea. While the document does not explicitly say so, it’s likely that O’Malley also intends to testify against his co-defendants.
This marks the first guilty plea in a high-level case involving Redflex. Since losing the Chicago contract as a result of this corruption scandal, Redflex’s 2013 pre-tax profits in its North American division (its corporate parent is an Australian company) have plummeted over 33 percent—from $3.4 million in the first half of 2013, to $2.28 million in the second half.
O’Malley had been paid $2 million for his services, which had he been an employee would have made him the highest-paid. But according to prosecutors, much of that money was funneled to John Bills, a former managing deputy commissioner at the Department of Transportation, and a longtime friend of O’Malley’s.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/high-paid-consultant-to-plead-guilty-in-chicago-red-light-camera-case/