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Redflex Hit With New, Expanded Complaint in Red-Light-Camera Scam

By Ted Cox | December 14, 2015 6:06pm
 New charges were filed in the city's case against Redflex Traffic Systems.
New charges were filed in the city's case against Redflex Traffic Systems.
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CITY HALL — The city Law Department piled on new charges against Redflex Traffic Systems Monday in an expanded complaint in the alleged bribery and kickback scam on red-light cameras.

According to Law Department spokesman Bill McCaffrey, the city named the firm's Australian parent company, Redflex Holdings Ltd., as a defendant, while adding charges of filing false statements and of violating the consumer-fraud ordinance, as well as making new claims of kickbacks involving Martin O'Malley, a "bagman" who has already pleaded guilty to paying bribes.

"I want every company that does business with the City of Chicago or hopes to do business with the City of Chicago to know one thing — we will not stand idly by when taxpayers are defrauded," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a statement. "If you try to take advantage of Chicagoans, we will do everything in our power to hold you accountable, and we will go halfway around the world to do it."

The city is seeking repayment of some of the $125 million Redflex was paid before the mayor terminated its contract in October 2012, as well as damages.

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