COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVN) -- The former CEO of a red-light camera company has pled guilty to issuing bribes to city officials in Columbus and Cincinnati, to keep the cameras up and running.
Karen Finley, of Arizona, admitted in court that between 2005 and 2013, the company made campaign contributions to elected officials.
According to the Dispatch, the bribes were taken by the Ohio Democratic Party, and the campaign of Andrew Ginther solicited for the bribe to keep the cameras operating in late 2011.
In a release from the US District Attorney's Office, "According to admissions made in connection with her plea, Finley and others, including another executive of the company, agreed to provide the conduit campaign contributions with the understanding that the elected public officials would assist the company in obtaining or retaining municipal contracts, including a photo red light enforcement contract with the City of Columbus."
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If government wants these in there towns they should have to pay for them entirely. It's a money grab once they get private companies involved.
ReplyDelete2005-2013.. so this went on for (at least) eight years.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what's been going on here with our cameras?
It looks to be a VERY lucrative business..
It may be lucrative, but once a driver goes 42 mph in the school zone where there's a speed camera, he or she usually doesn't do it twice.
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