red flex ceo karen find leigh finley and john bils. >> john bils had a meeting with karen finley and several of her top executives to coach them on how to behave at the next day at city hall. >> this is schmidt's first time on camera describing what john bills said to him. >> he looked directly at me, i'm going to talk to you like i don't know you and you have to go along with it. i looked at his boss karen finley, she held one finger up like this then put it down and shook her head just a little bit. >> at this point the fix was in. red flex was awarded a contract, worth $129 million to install all the red light cameras. but the investigative articles which started in 2012 drew the attention of federal prosecutors which led to a remarkable turn of events. in may 2014, john bills was indicted on a federal bribery discharge. as an assistant transportation commissioner bills received as much as $2 million in bribes from red flex. red flex's headquarters in phoenix, arizona, came under scrutiny. finley came under investigation that she had conspiracy to bribe bills. and bribing official