Tahir Kazmi, once Robert Ficano's chief information officer, agreed to cooperate in the federal probe of county corruption as part of a deal he reached with the government in return for leniency.
Kazmi admitted he accepted bribes to help an IT vendor secure county contracts.
In return for his guilty plea Thursday in U.S. District Court, prosecutors recommended a sentence of between 4 1/2 and 6 years in prison. The maximum penalty for a public official accepting bribes is 10 years in prison
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