Posted on 07/17/2020 3:22:57 PM PDT by infool7
Federal prosecutors implicated Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan on Friday in a brazen, Chicago-style bribery scheme involving ComEd that allegedly went on for years and involved payments to Madigan associates exceeding $1.3 million.
Though the stunning, lengthy details were revealed in documents that charged only ComEd — and not Madigan — with bribery, they said ComEd has agreed to “fully and truthfully cooperate” with federal prosecutors. The company has agreed to pay a $200 million fine and acknowledged that it sought Madigan’s help for legislation that could be worth more than $150 million to the utility company.
Madigan is not identified by name in the documents, rather as “Public Official A.” But there is no doubt it is him, as the documents identify that person as Illinois’ house speaker. No one in the country has held that title as long as Madigan.
U.S. Attorney John Lausch repeatedly declined to say at a news conference Friday if Madigan would be criminally charged.
Lausch described the ongoing investigation as “vibrant.”
“We realize we have a lot of work to do, and we’re going to get that done,” he said.
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FYI Commonwealth Edison, the electric company in Chicago and environs.
If the mob is no longer safe in Chicago then
they aren’t safe ANYWHERE!
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No mention of political party. Safe to assume he is a rat?
Chicago,naw, not a chance.
This is the beginning of the end for Corrupt Chicago Politics.
The machine was already groaning and smoking when Lighthead was elected but
now they have attacked the big cheese and it must be because he no longer has cover.
My guess is that those that were leveraged by the Pedo Island Tapes are not going to
be coming to Madigan’s defense any more.
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This is so excellent. Sort of a prologue.
SOP for Com Ed going back to the days when Bill Ayers father ran Com Ed. Some say Ayers Sr corruption is what drove Bill to the radical left.
The miracles of Illinois Democrat politics...
Never heard that nickname for Mayor Groot...
I believe this is the first corruption in Illinois ever. You can ask any of the several governors who have been in jail themselves.
Yes, him and many more. And not just ComEd but also AT&T, Walgreens and Rush University Medical Center.
Yeah and he runs the state.
That, or the rising neo-Maoists in the Party would love nothing more than to start shoving the Old Bulls (who also hold all the power and purse-strings) over the cliff....
If the Speaker is indicted does he get a jury of his “peers”?
I think many have been waiting for this guy to go down.
I seriously doubt this prosecutor is a rising neo-maoist Demshevik.
Lot of posters to Second City Cop call the incompetent, unqualified Mayor of Chicago, Larry Lighthead.
Groot is reserved for CPD officers...
Like a death by thousands of piranha
Madigan will be eaten alive by all of those he held
under his thumb for decades.
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