The finance commissioner of Chicago Heights pleaded guilty Fridayto conspiring to extort $260,000 in kickbacks in exchange forgarbage-hauling and landfill contracts.
Nick LoBue, 42, also admitted during his guilty plea that heaccepted an additional $50,000 in bribes from convicted southsuburban mobster Albert Tocco in exchange for giving Tocco's firm agarbage-hauling contract.
LoBue, who retires May 6 from his Chicago Heights post, is thefifth south surburban official to plead guilty to federal charges inthe case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Gair charged that between April,1980, and April, 1988, LoBue and Donald Prisco, the former mayor ofChicago …
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