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Former state Rep. Edward “Eddie” Acevedo has been drawn into the ongoing federal public corruption investigation that has gone quiet but not dormant, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued his stay-at-home order, federal prosecutors subpoenaed the Illinois Secretary of State’s lobbyist division for all records related to Acevedo, as well as Michael and Alexander Acevedo and the Acevedo’s lobbying company, Apex Strategy LLC, records show.
The Chicago Sun-Times obtained a copy of the subpoena through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Acevedos have not been accused of wrongdoing. Edward Acevedo told the Sun-Times he had “no clue” what prompted the subpoena. Michael and Alexander could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.
“I have no idea what that’s about,” Edward Acevedo said.
Secretary of State records list Michael Acevedo as Apex’s manager, and Edward and Alexander Acevedo as previously registered lobbyists. Alexander Acevedo ran in 2016 to replace his father in the legislature, but lost. He then ran in 2019 to replace Danny Solis as alderman of Chicago’s 25th Ward in yet another losing bid after Solis was revealed by the Sun-Times to be cooperating with federal investigators in their ongoing investigation of Chicago political corruption.
Read the rest. The grand jury number matches the one on the Ed Burke case.
The feds can’t normally just download the information from the SoS Index Division’s website and present it a grand jury. They usually need the official file. Hence, the subpoena. But what they’re after is really anybody’s guess.
*** UPDATE *** Eddie talked to the Tribune…
Former Democratic state Rep. Eddie Acevedo said Thursday he was interviewed last fall by the FBI regarding lobbying activities and separate consultant fees paid to him by two ComEd lobbyists with ties to Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan. […]
Acevedo, a former police officer, told the Tribune Thursday he worked as a consultant paid by John Bradley, a former House Democrat from Marion who was a contract lobbyist for ComEd until last November. Acevedo said he previously worked as a consultant in a similar role for lobbyist Shaw Decremer, a former Democratic House staffer and campaign operative ousted from the speaker’s political organization following complaints that he was abusive. […]
Acevedo said he could not remember the fee or the length of time he received the payments from Decremer, but that a consulting arrangement moved to Bradley once Decremer was booted from Madigan’s operation in 2018. […]
Acevedo said he did not lobby for ComEd, but he said he was a consultant for Bradley about ComEd issues.
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Jun 4, 20 @ 2:39 pm
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This will all be cleaned up by the Ethics legislation our General Assembly and the Governor are working on.
Comment by Back to the Future Thursday, Jun 4, 20 @ 4:08 pm
The feds, as they usually do, know what they already know.
This is like… “we went through the channels, it confirmed… “ kinda signal too.
We don’t know what this all might be, but makes you wonder how the targets are feeling signaling what they are specifically requesting.
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Jun 4, 20 @ 4:13 pm
Would the Apex client list be in that file? That might provide some possible clues.
Also curious to see how soon the Feds drop the next dime…
Comment by Lynn S. Thursday, Jun 4, 20 @ 6:12 pm
Ah yes, It is June and we are in Phase 3 soon to be phase 4, so it is back to the corruption probes.
Comment by Donnie Elgin Thursday, Jun 4, 20 @ 7:13 pm