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"You’ve been my spirit guides and more," Former ComEd CEO gushed about Michael Madigan and his longtime confidant on a secretly recorded call played for jurors Monday.

Fidel Marquez, a former ComEd senior vice president, took the witness stand for what Is expected to be lengthy testimony.

(The Center Square) – A former high-ranking Commonwealth Edison executive told jurors in a federal bribery trial Monday that he was part of a conspiracy along with others to bribe

Former ComEd executive Fidel Marquez took the stand as prosecutors planned to use secretly recorded FBI conversations to spotlight a key contract used to pay associates of the former House speaker.

(The Center Square) – A former high-ranking Commonwealth Edison executive told jurors in a federal bribery trial Monday that he was part of a conspiracy along with others to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. ...

Testimony that has unfolded in a Chicago federal courtroom has offered a fascinating — and unprecedented — look into the closely guarded inner workings of Madigan’s political might.

Sid Ramsay set sail for Hong Kong on the trip of a lifetime – but never arrived. Fifty years on, his kids still have questions about what happened to him.

(The Center Square) – In the midst of registering one legislative win after another in Springfield, top ComEd officials came to feel there was no mountain they couldn’t scale, as long as they had grizzled House Speaker Mike Madigan by ...

Will Cousineau took the witness stand after securing letters from the feds granting him immunity and making clear he’s not a target of an investigation. Then he listened as prosecutors played a December 2018 call he’d participated in and which was secretly recorded by the FBI.

Rich Millers Capitol Fax: Paying for political privileges