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1:20-cr-00812

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Illinois Northern

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  1. January 16, 2024

    Feds Say ComEd Bribery Sentencing Must Go On

    Prosecutors have urged an Illinois federal judge to reject a bid by the former Commonwealth Edison CEO and lobbyists to further postpone their sentencings for bribery until the U.S. Supreme Court decides a case they say could be fatal to their guilty verdicts, saying it's "nothing more than wishful thinking" that their convictions are in jeopardy.

  2. January 05, 2024

    Lobbyist, CEO Convictions Upheld In ComEd Bribery Scandal

    An Illinois federal judge has affirmed the convictions of three Commonwealth Edison lobbyists and the utility company's former chief executive on charges they conspired to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

  3. January 04, 2024

    ComEd Convictions Won't Stand, Ex-CEO's Atty Tells Judge

    Counsel for former Exelon Utilities CEO Anne Pramaggiore told an Illinois federal judge Thursday that regardless of how the nation's top court interprets the federal bribery statute later this year, the bribery convictions of his client and three former Commonwealth Edison lobbyists won't survive.

  4. December 18, 2023

    'ComEd 4' Sentencing Delayed Amid Bid To Await Justices' Call

    An Illinois federal judge on Monday struck early 2024 sentencing dates for a former Commonwealth Edison CEO and three lobbyists convicted of carrying out a legislative bribery scheme at Illinois' capitol to consider their argument that the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up an issue that could "upend" prosecutors' case and the jury's verdict.

  5. December 14, 2023

    Convicted 'ComEd 4' Want Pause For Justices' Bribery Input

    A former Commonwealth Edison CEO and three lobbyists convicted of carrying out a legislative bribery scheme at Illinois' capitol argued Thursday that their trial judge should pause proceedings while the U.S. Supreme Court considers an issue that could "upend" prosecutors' case.

  6. May 03, 2023

    Madigan Trial Looms Large After ComEd Bribery Verdicts

    Jurors delivered sweeping guilty verdicts against Commonwealth Edison's former top executive and three of its former lobbyists Tuesday on charges they bribed ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, drawing a decisive line between building goodwill with elected officials and corruptly influencing them as prosecutors prepare for Madigan's racketeering trial next year, white collar experts say.

  7. May 02, 2023

    ComEd Defendants Convicted Of Bribing Ex-Ill. Speaker

    Chicago federal jurors convicted Commonwealth Edison's former CEO and three of its former lobbyists Tuesday of conspiring to bribe ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, a verdict that capped a high-profile trial packed with more than 100 secretly recorded conversations and insights into the legislative kingmaker's political operation.

  8. April 25, 2023

    ComEd Defendants Are Corruption 'Grandmasters,' DOJ Says

    Prosecutors urged a Chicago federal jury not to be fooled by arguments raised by Commonwealth Edison's former CEO and lobbyists that jobs and benefits arranged for associates of Illinois' ex-House speaker reflected ordinary business and legal lobbying, likening it to a game of chess in which they were "grandmasters" of corruption.

  9. April 24, 2023

    ComEd Defendants 'Collateral' In War On Madigan, Jury Told

    Commonwealth Edison's former CEO and three of its former lobbyists are simply "collateral damage" in the federal government's pursuit of powerful ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, and the bribery conspiracy charges they face reflect prosecutors' attempt to criminalize politics and legal lobbying, Chicago federal jurors heard Monday.

  10. April 18, 2023

    Ex-ComEd CEO Says She Forgot Call About Do-Nothing Jobs

    Former Commonwealth Edison Co. and Exelon Utilities CEO Anne Pramaggiore claimed Tuesday that she had forgotten about a 2019 phone call in which another executive told her that subcontractors under one of the utility's lobbyists had been paid for years for doing no work when she denied knowing about them in a subsequent interview with federal investigators.