The former chief executive of a red-light camera company has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for a bribery scheme to secure $124 million in city of Chicago contracts. Karen Finley of Phoenix-based Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. wept as she apologized before a federal judge, saying "I'm ashamed of myself."
U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall ordered the 57-year-old Finley to pay $35,000 in restitution and 10% of the net income she earns for the rest of her life.
The Cave Creek, Arizona, woman previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit federal-program bribery. She had faced up to five years in prison. Her sentence will run concurrently with a 14-month term she was given in Ohio federal court last month for a similar scheme.
