Bit-by-bit, defense attorneys sought to dismantle the testimony offered over the last week by a former ComEd executive turned government informant.
Bit-by-bit, defense attorneys sought to dismantle the testimony offered over the last week by former ComEd executive turned government informant Marquez.All this week, the prosecution in the trial of the "ComEd Four" has been working to prove that the utility company was engaged in a bribery scheme at the highest levels of Illinois government.
He is a witness the defense seeks to portray as one who is guided by self-interest as he seeks to avoid prosecution himself.Bit-by-bit, defense attorneys sought to dismantle the testimony offered over the last week by former ComEd executive turned government informant Marquez. Again and again they attempted to make a point that what the defendants in the "ComEd Four" trial did, as they repeatedly agreed to then House Speaker Mike Madigan's hiring and political fundraising requests over the years was not, in fact, bribery, but everyday legal lobbying. Lobbying that according to ComEd documents, cost the company over $2 million a year."As a lobbyist, it is not illegal to try and influence an elected official.
And while prosecutors have spent weeks portraying Michael McClain as a man who relentlessly pursued Madigan's requests, his defense attorney painted a picture, through emails and phone calls, of McClain as someone who used his close relationship with Madigan, and his knowledge of legislative issues, to best serve ComEd's interests in the General Assembly, but did so without ever guaranteeing the speaker's support."He never said words like that, correct," answered Marquez.
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