After 17 days of testimony featuring some 37 witnesses, dozens of wiretapped phone calls and secretly recorded videos, prosecutors rested their case Wednesday in the “ComEd Four” bribery trial.
After 17 days of testimony featuring some 37 witnesses, dozens of wiretapped phone calls and secretly recorded videos, prosecutors rested their case Wednesday in the “ComEd Four” bribery trial over allegations that the utility tried to bribe then-House Speaker Michael Madigan.Ex-ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore informed the court she plans to take the witness stand herself, testimony that could begin Wednesday.
The last defendant to present a case will be Michael McClain, a longtime confidant of Madigan’s who worked for years as a ComEd contract lobbyist and consultant.the four defendants steered $1.3 million in payments from ComEd to Madigan-approved subcontractors who did little or no work in a bid to win the speaker’s influence over the utility’s legislative agenda in Springfield.
Moody, for years one of Madigan’s top door-knockers, recounted without hesitation Madigan’s warning when he told Moody about the arrangement: “I control that contract and if you stop doing political work, you’ll lose that contract.”That message was reinforced when Moody met with McClain at Huck Finn Restaurant on the Southwest Side. Moody testified McClain told him the contract was “a hell of a plum and that I owe the speaker big.
Moody’s testimony, which came near the end of the prosecution’s case in chief, was crucial because he’s the only one of the Madigan-approved “subcontractors” allegedly paid by ComEd to cooperate with the government.
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