ComEd bribery trial: Jury reaches guilty verdict
Federal jurors on Tuesday reached a guilty verdict in the case against four former political power players who were labeled "grand masters of corruption" for their alleged conspiracy to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to benefit ComEd.
ComEd bribery trial: Jury reaches guilty verdict in case involving Madigan
Federal jurors on Tuesday reached a guilty verdict in the case against four former political power players who were labeled "grand masters of corruption" for their alleged conspiracy to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to benefit ComEd.
ComEd bribery trial: Jury reaches guilty verdict for all 4 defendants in case involving Madigan
Federal jurors on Tuesday reached a guilty verdict in the case against four former political power players who were labeled "grand masters of corruption" for their alleged conspiracy to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to benefit ComEd.
Jurors continue to deliberate in 'ComEd Four' bribery trial
Monday marks the fourth day of jury deliberations in the ComEd Four case. Capitol News Illinois reporter Hannah Meisel followed the nearly seven week-long case and joined First at Four to talk more about it.
Flannery Fired Up previews ComEd trial and secret FBI recordings
The trial has provided an unprecedented look inside the way utility consumers get slapped with big rate hikes.
Jury to deliberate for third day in 'ComEd Four' trial
The "ComEd Four" were accused of trying to bribe former House Speaker Mike Madigan to get better legislation. Capitol News Reporter Hannah Meisel says the jury doesn't appear to be rushing, they want to get it right.
ComEd bribery trial: Jury begins deliberating after prosecutors call defendants ‘grand masters of corruption’
Federal jurors have begun to deliberate the case against four former political power players who were labeled Tuesday “grand masters of corruption" for their alleged conspiracy to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan to benefit ComEd.
ComEd bribery trial: Prosecutors hammer at ‘stunning’ stream of benefits delivered to Madigan
A defense attorney for a longtime friend of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called on a federal jury Monday to “be the shield" between a private citizen and a “very powerful government committed, dedicated and on a mission to get Mike Madigan."
Prosecutors in ComEd bribery trial hammer at ‘stunning’ stream of benefits delivered to Madigan
Federal prosecutors rejected Monday the idea that a “stunning" stream of benefits delivered to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan by four political power players in his final decade in office amounted to legal lobbying, goodwill or politics.
ComEd bribery trial: Prosecutors hammer at ‘stunning’ stream of benefits delivered to Madigan
A defense attorney for a longtime friend of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called on a federal jury Monday to “be the shield" between a private citizen and a “very powerful government committed, dedicated and on a mission to get Mike Madigan."
ComEd bribery case goes into the hands of jurors next week
Jurors will have a mountain of evidence to sort through once they begin to deliberate.
Former ComEd CEO testifies secretly recorded call in bribery case actually 'proves my innocence'
Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore held her ground while being cross-examined by a federal prosecutor in her corruption trial Tuesday, insisting that a secretly recorded call central to the feds’ case against her “proves my innocence.”
Despite secret FBI recordings, ex-ComEd CEO tells jurors she didn’t view Madigan as an ally of utility
Federal jurors have spent five weeks listening to the voice of former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, caught in a cache of secret FBI recordings in which prosecutors say she conspired with her colleagues to bribe then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
ComEd bribery trial: Prosecution rests as defense says former CEO will testify
Federal prosecutors rested their case in the ComEd bribery trial Wednesday, winding up after 17 days by playing more secretly recorded phone calls allegedly showing former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan securing consulting jobs at the utility for associates in exchange for help moving legislation.
ComEd bribery trial: Prosecution rests as defense says former CEO Anne Pramaggiore will testify
Federal prosecutors rested their case in the ComEd bribery trial Wednesday, winding up after 17 days by playing more secretly recorded phone calls allegedly showing former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan securing consulting jobs at the utility for associates in exchange for help moving legislation.
Longtime precinct captain says he was paid by ComEd to do political work for Madigan
One of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s former top precinct captains testified Tuesday that he believed hundreds of thousands of dollars funneled to him from ComEd were meant to keep him knocking on doors for the powerful Southwest Side Democrat.
'ComEd Four' trial delayed by scheduling issue
The ComEd Four federal bribery trial has been delayed due to last minute scheduling issues.
ComEd bribery trial witness pays price on stand as defense grills him over his decision, his personal life
The intense and embarrassing scene came on the fourth day of Marquez’s testimony in the trial of four former political power players who are accused of trying to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to benefit ComEd.
Defense finally gets crack at feds’ key witness in ComEd bribery trial
Michael McClain laughed inside Saputo’s restaurant in Springfield as he shared with then-ComEd executive Fidel Marquez his story about his 2016 retirement, and how he handed his list of duties over to Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
'How else can we help you?' Jurors hear and see Madigan's vast patronage system inside ComEd
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 “old-fashioned patronage system.”