Afternoon Briefing: Ex-red light camera exec back on stand in bribery trial

Good afternoon, Chicago.

Jurors in the bribery trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III today watched the rest of a 2019 undercover video from a downtown steakhouse where a red light camera company executive told Jones he’d raise him $5,000 and hire his legislative intern, but that he needed to “keep it quiet.”

“Especially in this day and age, keep it quiet. Is that cool?” SafeSpeed co-founder Omar Maani, who was secretly cooperating with the FBI, told Jones at the July 2019 meeting at Steak 48.

“Yeah that’s fine,” Jones replied. Jones III, 46, is charged with bribery, use of an interstate facility to solicit bribery and lying to federal agents.

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