A federal judge gave a former Chicago driving school instructor three years’ probation Friday after the woman admitted paying bribes to a secretary of state supervisor to pass her students.
Lidia Rodezno, who worked for Reliable Driving School, was ordered to serve her first four months of probation in home confinement with electronic monitoring during a sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow.
Rodezno of Chicago pleaded guilty July 1 to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion. She is among the latest to be convicted in the Operation Safe Road federal probe into corruption in state government.
The defendant admitted typically taking $600 in payoffs from a student and passing on up to $70 each time to Fernando Murillo, a supervisor in the Lombard driver’s license facility.
