Chicago Sues camera light company Redflex for $300M

[Mr_Roboto]

City of Chicago sues red light camera maker Redflex for more than $300 million | Ars Technica

Fuck both of them.

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[nytebyte]

Was reading about this earlier and found this little gem of a comment by Emanuel's lawyer:

The suit is brought under the City's False Claims Ordinance and seeks damages, plus civil penalties, attorneys' fees and costs, as a result of Redflex's fraudulent conduct in obtaining its 2003 and subsequent contracts with the City ....

This action is the latest example of the administration fighting on behalf of Chicago taxpayers.

Fighting on behalf of the Chicago taxpayer's ??!?!?!?!?! AAAAHHHhhahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!

Yeah because the taxpayers just LOVE getting milked by the whole red light camera scam to the tune of almost $300,000,000 and they want to get fucked over more. Stupid fuckin' greedy corrupt mother fuckin' politicians.

:squintfinger:

 

[Primalzer]

So are the people that got redlight camera tickets going to see any of that money??? :jerkit:

 

[Ti28]

So are the people that got redlight camera tickets going to see any of that money??? :jerkit:

That'd be the fucking day!

 

[blakbearddelite]

Come on guys, the city will take that money and make the city that much better. So essentially, the taxpayers are getting that benefit.

Or there will be an elite group of cronies that are now able to buy that third summer house in Hawaii.

 

[b4black]

Redflex, as a vendor to the municipality, had to sign multiple contracts that required the company to promise that it would not engage in bribery of public officials.

Well, if they did promise to not engage in bribery....

1) Thats like schools making kids sign a letter promising to be good and not do drugs. 2) The whole scheme is bribery to the City from the start. Redflex 'catches' people and they 'share' the money with the City. The City is just upset cause some indiviuals cut into their share.

 

[Kaeghl]

I was a contractor for the city of Chicago (software) for four years. Every year you have to go through ethics training which is basically them telling you exactly is legal and what is not.
The ethics laws and riders to the contract are there to make it explicitly illegal. SO there is no wiggle room or a loophole later.

 

[guspech750]

Don't worry.

Chicago put up speed cameras to pay for this lawsuit and a profit.

 

[Primalzer]

Judge Rules Against City of Chicago in Red-Light Camera Suit, Declares Tickets 'Void' | NBC Chicago

A Cook County judge has denied a request from the city of Chicago to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it denied due process to motorists ticketed under its red-light camera program.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Judge Kathleen Kennedy's late Friday ruling declares the tickets void and keeps alive a lawsuit seeking to have the city refund hundreds of millions of dollars to motorists ticketed since 2003.

Plaintiffs' attorney Jacie Zolna can now move forward with a request for class-action status. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of three named plaintiffs, argued the city violated a requirement to issue a second notice of violation before a determination of liability was issued against motorists.

City Law Department spokesman Bill McCaffrey says the city believes the plaintiffs aren't entitled to "any recovery, let alone any refunds."

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

So maybe I'll get my money back from that ticket??

 

[VenomousDSG]

Do people really expect to ever see ANY money out of any of this? The city is flat broke, and can't even pay it's workers pensions, you really think 300 million is just going to come out of thin air and be refunded?

Like trying to get blood from a turnip.

 

[radioguy6]

I'd rather see them open the books and explain where the $300 million ACTUALLY went.

 

[Intel]

The city blaming others for bribing their own city officials..

 

[b00sted]

Your honor, we need this 300 million FOR THE CHILDREN!


Hey, that excuse works every other time...

 

[guspech750]

Just get rid of them finally.

 

[GoldPanther]

At least I can now say that I contributed to the city with $100 that time when I got my first and only one red light ticket without a previous warning.