The former chief of staff for disgraced Cook County Commissioner Jeffrey Tobolski is the latest public official sentenced to prison in a wide-ranging federal corruption probe targeting Chicago’s south suburbs.
Patrick Doherty, 67, was sentenced to more than five years in prison on counts of bribery and tax evasion and will have to pay back some $80,000 in state and federal taxes. Doherty last year pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors, admitting he was involved in multiple bribery schemes spanning several years, seeking contracts for SafeSpeed to install cameras in south suburban towns and fend off state regulation of the devices.
