Por: Chicago Sun Times Politics May 16, 2023
Exelon has been paying the legal fees for two now-convicted former Commonwealth Edison executives who were part of a conspiracy to bribe former I WBEZ has learned.The move has created an unusual dynamic. On one hand, the company’s subsidiary, , is cooperating with federal investigators under a deferred prosecution agreement and paid a $200 million fine for attempting to Madigan in a long-running bribery scheme.Yet the Exelon-financed legal... + full article
Chicago Sun Times USA Politics April 18, 2023
A month after he began to cooperate with the FBI, then-ComEd executive Fidel Marquez helped the feds secretly record a phone call that would become key to their case against rising-star energy executive Anne Pramaggiore. Marquez told Pramaggiore that people working for a... + más
‘How else can we help you?’ Jurors hear and see Madigan’s vast patronage system inside ComEd | Chicago Sun Times
Jurors in ComEd bribery trial won’t hear Madigan’s ‘bandits’ quip, judge rules | Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Sun Times USA Politics April 13, 2023
The former CEO of will take the stand in federal court Thursday as she faces charges she put allies of on the utility’s payroll to secure the former Illinois House speaker’s support on legislation that helped the power company’s bottom line. Prosecutors on Wednesday closed... + más
‘I will keep pressing’: Jurors hear ComEd CEO taking orders after key witness explains appointment to utility’s board | Chicago Sun Times
ComEd had to earn Madigan’s favor for legislative success, fed star witness says | Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Sun Times USA Politics April 07, 2023
Former McPier boss Juan Ochoa took the stand Thursday in the trial of four political power players and told the tale of his appointment to ComEd’s board — a seemingly typical Chicago backroom deal involving then-Illinois . Then, prosecutors played another set of phone calls... + más
Chicago Sun Times USA Politics April 04, 2023
ComEd and Exelon faced another round of serious negotiations over legislation in Springfield early in 2019, and former ComEd lobbyist Michael McClain had a problem. The longtime confidant of then- had already retired from his lobbying job, so Madigan asked who would serve as... + más
Chicago Sun Times USA Politics March 29, 2023
A close confidant of Michael J. Madigan sat down with a new ComEd CEO in March 2019 and explained how the then-powerful Illinois House speaker had long viewed the massive utility as an When technology put an end to Madigan’s ability to put people in meter reader jobs, ComEd... + más
Madigan ruled ‘through fear and intimidation,’ ComEd bribery trial jurors told | Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Sun Times USA Politics March 27, 2023
The federal government’s star witness — former executive Fidel Marquez — took the stand in the ComEd bribery trial Monday, as prosecutors plan to use secretly recorded FBI conversations to spotlight a key contract used to pay associates of former House Speaker Marquez, who... + más
Attorney general seeking more money for consumers from ComEd for scandal tied to House Speaker Michael Madigan | Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune USA Politics September 22, 2022
A month after state regulators ordered Commonwealth Edison to pay $38 million in refunds due to the scandal tied to ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan, the Illinois attorney general wants consumers to get a little more. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Tuesday said ComEd... + más
Gov. J.B. Pritzker deflects on corruption as state Sen. Emil Jones III resigns leadership and committee posts after federal bribery charges | Chicago Tribune
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