When then-ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore was promoted to be the top executive of the utility’s parent company in 2018, her first call was to House Speaker Michael Madigan, a federal jury heard Monday.
The four defendants charged in the ComEd bribery scheme are, from left, consultant Jay Doherty, lobbyist and former ComEd executive John Hooker, retired lobbyist Michael McClain and former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore.
“You’ve been my spirit guides and more on that,” Pramaggiore told McClain, who at the time was waiting outside Madigan’s office at the Capitol while the speaker was meeting with Gov. Bruce Rauner.Weeks later, McClain and Hooker, also a longtime ComEd lobbyist, were secretly recorded by the FBI talking about Pramaggiore’s move to the big time at Exelon.
Later in that same conversation, McClain told Madigan that he was pleased the speaker and Pramaggiore had developed such a friendly relationship. The “domino effect,” McClain said, started when they took a trip to Turkey together. Charged in the case are McClain, Pramaggiore, Hooker, and Jay Doherty, who was a consultant and lobbyist for ComEd and the ex-president of the City Club of Chicago.The indictment alleged ComEd poured $1.
The defense has argued that what prosecutors say was bribery was actually nothing more than honest, legal political lobbying, and that there was no evidence Madigan did anything to directly help ComEd in exchange for benefits that flowed to his cronies. Fidel Marquez, Vice President of Operations at ComEd, on August, Monday, February 4 2008 inside his downtown Chicago office.
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