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With the eyes of his since-indicted former co-workers burning in the direction of Fidel Marquez, a defense attorney pointed their way and demanded of Marquez, “You didn’t choose to sit over there, did you?”

The intense and embarrassing scene came on the fourth day of Marquez’s testimony in the trial of four former political power players who are accused of trying to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to benefit ComEd.

Fidel Marquez, the government’s witness, continued testifying for the fourth day, now under cross examination from defense attorneys seeking to show how their clients’ actions were above board when they tried to garner Madigan’s support on legislation in Springfield.

Government mole Fidel Marquez was accused of switching his view on whether what he did at the utility to win favor with House Speaker Michael Madigan was a crime in order to avoid jail time.

Defense attorneys for the "ComEd Four" sought to dismantle the testimony offered by a former ComEd executive turned government informant.

(The Center Square) – “ComEd 4” trial defense attorney Patrick Cotter sought to flip the script late Thursday as the third week of testimony in the wide-ranging federal corruption probe came to an end, accusing the government of engagi...

In intense courtroom moment, government’s star witness accused of saving his own skin

The role lobbyists play in Springfield politics took center stage Thursday in the “ComEd Four” bribery trial.

(The Center Square) – Firing off one salvo after another, defense attorney Patrick Cotter pressed long and hard on Thursday in his effort to essentially make jurors in the sweeping "ComEd 4" corruption case forget almost all of what th...