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(The Center Square) – Prosecutors in the long-awaited “ComEd Four” trial on Wednesday told jurors that the four defendants participated in a scheme to bribe longtime former Illinois House Speaker

Trial’s second day included hours of opening arguments, first witness

A former Illinois state representative will return to the witness stand Wednesday in the “ComEd Four” trial.

The second day of the trial had hours of opening arguments and first witness testimonies.

A former state representative testified at the “ComEd Four” trial Thursday that he never passed another bill after he refused to vote to reinstall House Speaker Michael Madigan.

(The Center Square) – Opening statements could begin Wednesday in a two-year-old case accusing four former ComEd executives and lobbyists of a multi-year scheme to corruptly influence longtime former Illinois

ComEd, Madigan focus of federal bribery trial

The decision kicked off the trial’s first day, the bulk of which was spent by the judge questioning 95 potential jurors. By Wednesday morning, 12 jury members...

CHICAGO (AP) — Jury selection began Tuesday at a federal trial in Chicago that could offer an inside look at pay-to-play politics in Illinois that