Sentencing hearings in the “ComEd Four” bribery case involving former House Speaker Michael Madigan will be delayed until after the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on a key federal bribery…
The defendants who were found guilty on all counts in"ComEd Four" trial. Charged were Madigan's longtime confidant, Michael McClain, 75, of downstate Quincy, former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, 64, ex-ComEd lobbyist John Hooker, 73, and Jay Doherty, 69, the former head of the City Club of Chicago.Acting U.S. Attorney Morris Pasqual and the prosecution team speak to the media after the"ComEd Four" were found guilty on all counts at the Dirksen U.S.
Leinenweber’s ruling follows a similar decision by U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey, who agreed to postpone Madigan’s racketeering trial from April to October in order to have the Supreme Court’s decision in hand., the former mayor of Portage, Indiana, convicted of accepting $13,000 from a company that had recently won contracts to sell the city garbage trucks.
But other districts have seen it differently, and the split over that issue has now become “entrenched and intractable,” with courts refusing to reconsider their previous positions, Snyder’s appellate attorneys wrote in their Aug. 1 petition asking the Supreme Court to take up the case.