CHICAGO _ The bagman who funneled more than half a million dollars in bribes to the City Hall insider at the center of the red light camera scandal was sentenced to six months in prison Monday in return for his extensive cooperation with authorities after his own arrest.
Martin O'Malley, 75, had testified against John Bills, telling jurors in January that he passed envelopes stuffed with thousands in cash at a time to the city official over the table at Manny's deli and other restaurants.
Bills, convicted in one of the most brazen City Hall corruption cases in Chicago's storied history of graft, was sentenced late last month to 10 years in prison.
The scheme was first exposed by the Chicago Tribune in 2012.
Only one key player in the scandal remains to be sentenced _ Karen Finley, a former CEO of Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., the Arizona company that won tens of millions of dollars in city contracts in return for the $2 million bribery scheme. She is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 10 in Chicago.
