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Members of former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s inner circle have mostly withdrawn their request for information about the grand jury that handed up a 50-page indictment against them last November.

Madigan confidant Michael McClain, former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, onetime ComEd vice president John Hooker and ex-City Club President Jay Doherty have all pleaded not guilty in response to that indictment, which accused them of a long-term bribery scheme designed to curry favor with the once powerful legislative leader. Madigan has not been charged and has denied wrongdoing.

Last month, defense attorneys for the group questioned whether the grand jurors who handed up the indictment “were representative of the community” and noted that the COVID-19 pandemic “has had a disparate impact on different groups.” They asked for details about the race, religion, sex, gender, ethnicity, year of birth, ZIP code, income and occupation of all grand jury members.

Earlier this month, though, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu wrote in a court filing that the grand jury was impaneled more than a year before the pandemic took hold, and “no additional jurors have been selected to serve on this grand jury since the time it was impaneled.”

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posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Jan 26, 21 @ 9:44 am

Comments

Thus spake Emily Littela.

Comment by VerySmallRocks Tuesday, Jan 26, 21 @ 10:16 am
Nothing was going to get accomplished with that motion other then more billable hours for the lawyers.

Comment by Hard D Tuesday, Jan 26, 21 @ 10:32 am
Thus spake billable hours.

Comment by Three Dimensional Checkers Tuesday, Jan 26, 21 @ 10:35 am
on second thought, we don’t want to seem like we are trying to figure out the names of the jurors.

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Jan 26, 21 @ 10:42 am
Public official A says ” forget about it”

Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Jan 26, 21 @ 2:55 pm

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