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(The Center Square) – Prosecutors in the “ComEd 4" trial late Wednesday sought to highlight the “relentless” campaign they contend Michael McClain waged in 2016 as a Commonwealth Edison lobbyist intent on making sure a contract longtim...

Secret recordings of House Speaker Michael Madigan’s private inner circle meetings were played in the “ComEd Four” trial Thursday.

“I understand we have a lot of people walking around trying to find things to complain about,” Madigan is heard saying at the meeting. “Every once in a while, the speaker gets to do what he wants to do.”

A close, longtime staffer for former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan took the stand in the ComEd bribery trial Thursday, testifying under immunity about secretly recorded 2018 discussions about House leadership in which a longtime Madigan confidant participated.

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“I understand we have a lot of people walking around trying to find things to complain about,” Madigan is heard saying. “Every once in a while, the speaker gets to do what he wants to do.”

A close, longtime staffer for former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan took the stand in the ComEd bribery trial Thursday, testifying under immunity...

(The Center Square) – Prosecutors continued Tuesday to illustrate the importance of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to the states largest utility in the trial of four former ComEd

ComEd has long been a source of political patronage. The company’s Deferred Prosecution Agreement with federal prosecutors even references how former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s “old-fashioned patronage system” obtained ComEd meter-reader jobs for its precinct workers.

ComEd’s former general counsel said he was told to sign the law firm of political operative Victor Reyes to an unusual three-year contract guaranteeing Reyes’ firm 850 hours of legal work a year.