Ex-Redflex CEO Pleads Guilty to Bribing Chicago Official

A former CEO of an Arizona-based red-light camera firm has pleaded guilty to using bribery to help her company land lucrative contracts with the city of Chicago. Redflex also had Columbus’ exclusive contract for Columbus’ red light cameras until the program was discontinued earlier this year.

Finley will be sentenced in Chicago on February 18, 2016, by the U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall.

Finley remains to be sentenced, but potentially faces up to five years in prison.

O’Malley allegedly funneled much of the $2 million he was paid by Redflex to Bills, who got a $177,000 condo, Super Bowl tickets, golf outings, a boat, his children’s school fees and even his girlfriend’s mortgage and his divorce attorney’s bill paid by Redflex, the feds say. Martin O’Malley, the contractor, announced in court filings that he would plead guilty in October 2014. Finley admitted in the plea agreement that she knew O’Malley was a friend of Bills and that it was important to Bills that Redflex hire him. His trial is scheduled for January. Bills retired from the city in 2011.

The former CEO at the heart of the federal investigation of bribery of local political officials has pleaded guilty in another bribery case.

The government is represented by Assistant United States Attorney Laurie J. Barsella.