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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / January 2007Mayor going to prison for demanding a bribe from RLC company
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1577.asp Missouri: 18 Months in Jail for Red Light Camera Bribe Red light camera bribe will put the former mayor of St. Peters, Missouri in prison for at least nine months. A federal judge on Monday sentenced the former mayor of St. Peters, Missouri to 18 months in jail for soliciting a bribe from Australian red light camera vendor Redflex. In August, a grand jury indicted Shawn Brown, 35, after he demanded $2750 from Redflex in return for his signing an ordinance that allowed the company to land a lucrative photo enforcement contract <...> Scandals have rocked the photo enforcement industry. Earlier this month, a top Redflex salesman was convicted of $1.2 million in fraud. Redflex competitor ACS is on trial in Edmonton, Canada for bribing two police officers to secure approval of a $90 million no-bid photo ticketing contract. In November, the CEO and CFO of ACS stepped down after admitting to $51 million in stock options fraud. <...> ---------------- On Jan 30, 10:45 am, tetraethylleadREMOVET...@yahoo.com (Brent P) wrote: > http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1577.asp > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > ---------------- Dang...between the geezer murderer I posted about earlier, the bus crash reported on CNN, and this, better avoid the St. Louis area! tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) said in rec.autos.driving: >http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1577.asp > >Missouri: 18 Months in Jail for Red Light Camera Bribe >Red light camera bribe will put the former mayor of St. Peters, Missouri >in prison for at least nine months. That would never have happened to Mayor Daley...  SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! > That would never have happened to Mayor Daley... The chicago and illinois systems are far more advanced. The big shots have someone else take the bribes such that the big shot can deny ever knowing about it. Just look at the maze to get Ryan. Until bribes to Daley have a dead family on the news, there probably won't be enough effort to sort it all out beyond getting some top cronies. > tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) said in > rec.autos.driving: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > That would never have happened to Mayor Daley... Hell no! Daley would never settled for so little $2750 - the guy is a disgrace. >http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1577.asp > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >an ordinance that allowed the company to land a lucrative photo >enforcement contract Wow. Politicians go cheap in MO. You couldn't even get a Philly politician's interest with less than $10,000. SignatureThere's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. > A federal judge on Monday sentenced the former mayor of St. Peters, > Missouri to 18 months in jail for soliciting a bribe from Australian red > light camera vendor Redflex. In August, a grand jury indicted Shawn > Brown, 35, after he demanded $2750 from Redflex in return for his signing > an ordinance that allowed the company to land a lucrative photo > enforcement contract 27 hundred bucks? That's it? If you're going to demand a bribe, at least make it large enough to offset the risk of getting caught. |
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