Jurors in the 'ComEd Four' trial are expected to hear the earthiest view yet of Mike Madigan’s political organization — from a guy who never would have been pegged as a government witness: Edward M. Moody.
Ed Moody speaks to 6th District committeemen about his qualifications for a vacant Cook County Board seat on Oct. 8, 2016. Moody was chosen to fill the seat vacated by Joan Patricia Murphy, who had died of cancer.
To be sure, Moody’s highly anticipated testimony promises an unprecedented street-level view of a political machine that dominated the state for decades and fueled Madigan’s 36-year nationwide record run as speaker of the Illinois House. “They were some of the best,” Cousineau testified. “We would typically assign them to some of our hardest races.”
Charged in the ComEd Four case are Michael McClain, a retired lobbyist and Madigan’s closest confidant; former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore; ex-ComEd executive and lobbyist John Hooker; and former ComEd contract lobbyist Jay Doherty, the ex-president of the City Club civic group. His one-page report from August 2013 listed nine state legislators he reached out to over the course of the month. For each one, he wrote that he’d simply given them McClain’s number and “encouraged” them to call “if they had any questions.”
As a workaround, Moody’s payments started coming from two “intermediaries” allied with Madigan who did contract work for ComEd, according to prosecutors. Moody stopped being paid through the intermediaries when he was appointed to be Cook County’s recorder of deeds in late 2018, according to prosecutors. The investigation went overt five months later with a series of raids in the Chicago area and downstate.
“Hey, Jay, this is, uh, Ed Moody calling. The speaker wanted me to reach out to you, if you wouldn’t mind returning my call,” Moody said.Jurors have also been shown several times the bare-bones resume Moody submitted to ComEd when he was first being brought on as a subcontractor. In fact, people who participated in Madigan-run campaigns said the Moodys trained sitting incumbents and legislative candidates in the fine arts of politicking.
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