The sprawling federal investigation into Commonwealth Edison’s alleged attempts to sway former House Speaker Michael Madigan rocked Illinois politics to the core.
The highly anticipated trial of the so-called ComEd Four, which is expected to last up to eight weeks, will feature as many as 70 witnesses, including current and former state legislators, members of Madigan’s vaunted 13th Ward political operation, and former ComEd executives and attorneys.At the center of the trial will also be dozens of undercover recordings of the defendants and even the famously reticent Madigan himself.
Outside of former House Speaker Michael Madigan, the main characters in the “ComEd Four” bribery conspiracy trial are hardly household names. Former City Club of Chicago President Jay Doherty enters the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on the first day of the “ComEd Four” bribery conspiracy trial, March 14, 2023.
“She really is second to none,” City Club President Jay Doherty said in his gushing October 2015 introduction of Anne Pramaggiore, who at the time was a rising corporate star and one of the country’s top female executives. Then Doherty raised a finger and pointed to another luminary he’d spotted in the audience.
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