IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS — Mayor indicted for traffic-camera bribery:

Mayor Shawn Brown was arrested by federal authorities Friday on a charge of soliciting and accepting $2,750 in bribe money from a company that wanted to install red light cameras in St. Peters.

The company is Redflex, which is also the contractor for Knoxville’s traffic cameras. More background here, and note that this isn’t the only bribery case of its type. My article on red light cameras for Popular Mechanics can be found here.

UPDATE: It’s in the linked story, but I don’t want to give the wrong impression, so note this passage too: “Redflex employees then alerted the FBI and cooperated with the agency in carrying out the alleged bribe, said Jay Heiler, a spokesman for the Scottsdale, Ariz., firm.” Thanks to reader Daniel Coyne for pointing out the possible confusion.