A former Illinois mayor pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges on Wednesday and admitted he improperly sought cash payments from a representative at SafeSpeed, a red-light camera company, the Department of Justice announced. Louis Presta, the former mayor of Crestwood, Illinois, pleaded guilty to one count of using a facility in interstate commerce in aid of bribery and official misconduct, and one count of filing a false income tax return. Presta also admitted that he willfully filed a false personal income tax return for the calendar year 2015. If charged, he faces up to five years in federal prison for bribery and up to three years for the tax offense. Presta, 71, is set to be sentenced on Feb. 23, 2022. Presta’s guilty plea comes more than a year after he was charged in a federal indictment with bribery and official misconduct, lying to the FBI and IRS, and tax charges. The indictment claims that Presta sought and …