Former ComEd executive Fidel Marquez took the stand as prosecutors planned to use secretly recorded FBI conversations to spotlight a key contract used to pay associates of the former House speaker.
ComEd’s former general counsel said he was told to sign the law firm of political operative Victor Reyes to an unusual three-year contract guaranteeing Reyes’ firm 850 hours of legal work a year.
The law is best remembered for the $2.3 billion bailout of two nuclear plants owned by ComEd parent Exelon. But Day Five of the "ComEd Four" trial revealed that ComEd raked in just about as much and without all the controversy.
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