A longtime police officer-turned-mayor has become the latest suburban politician to be indicted on charges he accepted cash to allow red-light cameras into his town.
Red-light cameras at Illinois 83 and 22nd Street which is in Oakbrook Terrace and Oak Brook in 2017.
Two years after resigning from office amid revelations of the federal investigation, Anthony “Tony” Ragucci was charged with wire and tax fraud in a case made public Monday. Prosecutors accused Ragucci of accepting thousand of dollars after the state in 2017 let his suburb, Oakbrook Terrace, put red-light cameras at a busy, but arguably safe corner outside a west suburban mall.
The then-mayor also directly accepted $12,500 cash from an official of the red-light camera firm as contracts were renewed, unaware that the official was secretly working with federal investigators on a wide-ranging corruption probe, prosecutors alleged. Defendants who are charged by information rather than grand jury indictment typically intend to plead guilty. Ragucci could not immediately be reached for comment.
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