Longtime Illinois House Speaker and state Democratic Party chairman Michael Madigan is facing calls for his resignation after federal prosecutors implicated him in an alleged bribery scheme, which has resulted in utility company ComEd agreeing to a $200 million fine.
Federal prosecutors said that utility company ComEd admitted to providing jobs or contracts "for various associates of a high-level elected official for the state of Illinois." While Madigan's name was not mentioned, a federal court filing identifies the official as the Illinois House speaker.
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Which states budget is in the hole, which states lottery had to pull out of a national lottery, which states taxes are huge?
ReplyDeleteHint, not MD
Funny how everyone knew about the corruption. I grew up in Illinois. Madigan is as corrupt as the day is long, but no one does anything about it.
ReplyDeleteFining utilities is useless. They don’t care about fines because they pass the cost onto the consumer via rate increases. Now if the executives were jailed for such violations that would make a difference.
ReplyDeleteEveryone is in on it. But the money stops sometime. Now the rats are talking and ratting on each other.
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