“This is very clear: We do not want to stand for this sort of corruption,” juror Amanda Schnitker Sayers said during an appearance on “Chicago Tonight.”
The guilty verdicts against the ComEd Four are a message to politicians across Illinois that citizens understand the toll political corruption takes on their state, and they won’t tolerate it.
Madigan s trial is set to begin next April and may be one of the most complex trials in Illinois history. Madigan s defense will be that he was conducting
Ex-ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, former ComEd lobbyist Mike McClain, retired ComEd executive John Hooker and ex-City Club of Chicago president and former ComEd consultant Jay Doherty were each charged more than two years ago with bribery conspiracy, bribery and willfully falsifying the company’s books.