A longtime Democratic operative pleaded guilty Wednesday to a wide range of corruption schemes stemming from a sprawling federal bribery investigation involving red light cameras.
Patrick Doherty, 66, admitted in a plea agreement with prosecutors that he helped funnel payments from an employee of a red light camera company SafeSpeed LLC to former state Sen. Martin Sandoval in exchange for the senator’s help in Springfield. At the time, Doherty was moonlighting as a sales agent for SafeSpeed.
In addition, Doherty admitted filing false tax returns over a four-year period that substantially understated his taxable income, according to the plea. In pleading guilty, Doherty became the latest to be convicted in a probe that stretched from Chicago’s southwest suburbs to the Capitol building in Springfield, where federal agents raided Sandoval’s offices in the fall of 2019, thrusting the case into the public spotlight.
Doherty, who doubled as a sales agent for SafeSpeed LLC, was initially indicted in 2019 on charges he conspired with company executive Omar Maani as well as John O’Sullivan, then the supervisor of Worth Township, to pay $4,000 in bribes in exchange for the official support of an Oak Lawn trustee to add SafeSpeed cameras at additional intersections.
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