Posted on 11/09/2005 10:03:00 AM PST by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO - A former Chicago transportation foreman was sentenced to a year in prison for taking $15,000 in bribes to divert city-owned asphalt to private construction projects.
"I really do understand how wrong this all was," Patrick Stillo, 51, told U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo during his sentencing Tuesday.
Stillo is the 18th person sentenced and one of 24 who have pleaded guilty to charges in the federal investigation into Chicago's scandal-plagued Hired Truck Program. The program spent millions to outsource hauling jobs to private truckers.
Stillo, who had pleaded guilty to mail fraud and bribery, was one of five people indicted in February and accused of stealing hundreds of tons of asphalt. He and another Department of Transportation foreman, Robert Laino, were ordered to pay $45,000 in restitution, and Laino received a six-month prison sentence last month.
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