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Subject: FORMER CEO GUILTY TO BRIBERY AND FRAUD SCHEME INVOLVING
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FORMER CEO PLEADS GUILTY TO BRIBERY AND FRAU
INVOLVIN RED LIGHT CAMERA CONTRACT

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WASHINGTON -- A former chief executive officer ofa red light camera vendor pleaded
guilty today to participating in an eight-year bribery and fraud scheme, announced Assistant
Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, 
Attorney Carter Stewart ofthe Southern District of Ohio and Special Agent in Charge Angela
Byers ofthe FBI's Cincinnati Field Office

Karen Finley) 55, ofCave Creek, Arizona, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge
Terence Kemp of the Southern District of Ohio to a one-count information charging her with
conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery and honest services wire and mail fraud Finley's
sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date

From December 2005 to February 2013, Finley sewed as CEO ofa red light camera
enforcement company As part of her plea agreement, Finley admitted that, between 2005 and

2013, she participated in a scheme in which the company made campaign contributions to elected
public officials in the cities of Columbus and Cincinnati through a consultant retained by the
company. According to admissions made in connection with her plea, Finley and others,
including another executive of the company, agreed to provide the conduit campaign
contributions with the understanding that the elected public officials would assist the company in
obtaining or retaining municipal contracts, including a photo red light enforcement contract with
the City of Columbus. Finley also admitted she and her co-conspirators concealed the true nature
and source of the payments by the consultant’s submission and the company’s payment of false
invoices for “consulting services,” which funds the consultant then provided to the campaigns of
the elected public officials.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Cincinnati Field Office, Columbus Resident
Agency, with the assistance of IRS-Criminal Investigations and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal
Investigation. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Edward P. Sullivan of the Criminal
Division’s Public Integrity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Michael Marous of the
Southern District of Ohio.
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