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Prosecutors say ComEd Four sentencing on track

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Four former ComEd executives and lobbyists are on a clear path to sentencing for their conspiracy aimed at ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, despite a last-minute challenge to their convictions and President Donald Trump’s review of a key law in the case.

Madigan ally Michael McClain, former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, ex-ComEd lobbyist John Hooker and onetime City Club President Jay Doherty are all set to be sentenced this summer. A jury found them guilty more than two years ago, in May 2023.

On Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Streicker told U.S. District Judge Manish Shah that officials in Washington, D.C., had rejected a challenge to the convictions based on Trump’s ordered review of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. […]

Separately, the defense attorneys had also recently challenged the convictions under the U.S. Supreme Court’s March decision revolving around the 2022 conviction of former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson.

The high court undid a lower court ruling in Thompson’s case, finding that a law he’d been convicted under outlaws false statements but not misleading ones. Shah on Wednesday rejected the argument that the convictions for falsifying ComEd’s books should therefore fall.

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posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, May 28, 25 @ 1:29 pm

Comments

I’m never going to trust one of these things again. We know the feds have it out for Illinois at this point, and they’re already arresting judges for following hundreds of years of precedent.

Comment by Irreverent Wednesday, May 28, 25 @ 1:41 pm
I’m sure there will be a pardon in the future for them.

Comment by Chicagonk Wednesday, May 28, 25 @ 2:00 pm
How the mighty have fallen

Comment by low level Wednesday, May 28, 25 @ 2:38 pm
“…the feds have it out for Illinois…’
Swing and a miss. This all started before orange man bad took office. Illinois has a decades-long history of blatant public corruption. One could easily argue there has not been enough investigation into the activities of our elected officials.

Comment by Flat Bed Ford Wednesday, May 28, 25 @ 2:52 pm
@Flat

Cool. It’s finishing after the feds have it out for Illinois though, and they’ve made it clear they will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Zero trust for any of it.

Comment by Irreverent Wednesday, May 28, 25 @ 3:43 pm