OAKBROOK TERRACE, In poor health. (AP) — A former suburban Chicago mayor pleaded responsible Monday to taking kickbacks to help using red-light cameras in his group.
Tony Ragucci, who resigned in 2020, admitted to getting $88,000 when he was main Oakbrook Terrace. He pleaded responsible to fraud and tax crimes.
It is the newest conviction associated to how SafeSpeed LLC handled some Chicago-area communities that put in cameras to document site visitors violations.
SafeSpeed mentioned it did not authorize payoffs and that any kickbacks had been a part of a scheme by people who find themselves now not related to the corporate.
In April, Louis Presta, who was mayor of Crestwood, was sentenced to a yr in jail for accepting $5,000.
Assistant U.S. Lawyer James Durkin mentioned Ragucci is cooperating with investigators, help that would assist him when he will get a sentence. He was a police officer earlier than being elected mayor in 2009.
Oakbrook Terrace’s red-light cameras produced almost $17 million in income from 2017 to April 2021, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Ragucci had defended the cameras as a technique to encourage protected driving.
