Former Crestwood Mayor Louis Presta was sentenced to one year in prison Monday, five months after he quit and admitted he took a secret $5,000 cash bribe while corruptly promising to hike the number of red-light camera tickets issued in the southwest suburb.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin told Presta that “public officials are held to a higher standard because you are given the power to affect people’s lives.”
And he called corruption in Illinois “death by a thousand cuts.”
