The former business partner of one of the central figures in the federal red-light camera bribery probe has been charged with tax evasion stemming from the misuse of company credit cards and other alleged income schemes.
Joh was a business partner of Omar Maani’s at Presidio Capital LLC, a construction and development company that built subsidized housing in the west suburbs and also renovated a small park in Summit.Maani was also a founding partner and executive at SafeSpeed LLC, a red light camera company that runs cameras at intersections in more than a dozen Chicago suburbs.
The charges against Joh, meanwhile, alleged he used Presidio’s company credit card as well as forged numerous checks in Maani’s name to pay for personal expenses that he failed to report to the IRS over a five-year period.