Tony Ragucci is accused of accepting thousands of dollars in cash to allow red light cameras near a busy intersection in 2017.
Tony Ragucci resigned in 2020. He now admits to getting $88,000 when he was leading Oakbrook Terrace. He pleaded guilty to fraud and tax crimes.It’s the latest conviction related to how SafeSpeed LLC dealt with some Chicago-area communities that installed cameras to record traffic violations.
SafeSpeed said it didn’t authorize payoffs and that any kickbacks were part of a scheme by people who are no longer associated with the company. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Durkin said Ragucci is cooperating with investigators, assistance that could help him when he gets a sentence. He was a police officer before being elected mayor in 2009.
Oakbrook Terrace’s red-light cameras produced nearly $17 million in revenue from 2017 to April 2021, theIn April, Louis Presta, who was mayor of Crestwood, was sentenced to a year in prison for accepting $5,000 in a red-light camera scheme.All the news you need to know, every day
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