New charges allege he helped funnel payments from a red-light camera company agent to former state Sen. Martin Sandoval in exchange for the senator’s help in Springfield, and adds charges alleging Patrick Doherty participated in a scheme with his former boss, then-McCook Mayor and Cook County Commissioner Jeffrey Tobolski, to shake down a real estate developer.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.