'ComEd Four' seek acquittal in Madigan case after Supreme Court ruling narrowing federal bribery laws

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'ComEd Four' seek acquittal in Madigan case after Supreme Court ruling narrowing federal bribery laws
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Four former ComEd executives and lobbyists convicted of conspiring to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are asking a federal judge to dismiss all charges against them, arguing the case was built 'on a rotten foundation.'

CHICAGO -- Four former ComEd executives and lobbyists convicted of conspiring to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are asking a federal judge to dismiss all charges against them, arguing the case was built 'on a rotten foundation.

Since then, the judge who oversaw their trial died in June, and the case has been reassigned to another judge.In their motion to throw out the ComEd Four defendants' convictions, their attorneys said the entire case against them is 'fatally flawed.

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