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Sentencing hearings for the former ComEd executives and contractors are scheduled for three months before the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
The four former Commonwealth Edison executives and officials convicted on bribery and other charges this week in the so-called “ComEd Four” case will be sentenced early next year.
The "ComEd Four" will be sentenced in January, a judge has ordered.
The convictions could affect the bribery trial next year of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and could spark ethics reforms and questions about how politicians are lobbied.
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The 'ComEd 4' convictions provided the latest tale of Democratic corruption in Illinois. But the case is unlikely to provide a major boost to the state's minority Republican party.