Week two of deliberations in the trial of the so-called 'ComEd Four' began Monday at the Dirksen Federal Building.
The ComEd Illinois trial has entered its 8th week in the bribery case involving former House Speaker Mike Madigan.Week two of deliberations in the trial of the so-called "ComEd Four" began Monday at the Dirksen Federal Building.
The defendants are accused of trying to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, to get legislation favorable to ComEd passed in Springfield.The fate of the so-called ComEd Four remains undecided. A jury of seven women and five men returned to deliberations Monday morning after a three-day weekend.A question arose early in the day, as jurors requested clarification in what appears to be a language discrepancy between the indictment and the instructions, one which would appear to lessen the burden of proof required to convict.
The question is one of seven posed by jurors so far in what is now the fourth day of deliberations, as they continue to sift through a mountain of evidence presented by a government determined to prove that former ComEd executives and lobbyists Anne Pramaggiore, Mike McClain, John Hooker and Jay Doherty engaged in an eight-year conspiracy to bribe then-House Speaker Mike Madigan, in exchange for his help getting legislation passed in Springfield.
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