Illinois Senate’s top Republican says ComED fine is evidence enough

Posted on July 20, 2020
Senate Minority Leader Bill Brady (R-Bloomington). (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Senate’s top Republican says regardless of whether House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) is charged in the bribery investigation announced Friday, we know quite enough about what happened.

“If the federal government imposed a $200 million fine,” Senate Minority Leader Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) said Monday, the representatives of the people of Illinois need to dig into this and see what happened and see that it doesn’t happen again.”

The U.S. attorney’s office reports Commonwealth Edison paid the $200 million in a deferred prosecution agreement to answer allegations that it hired Madigan’s people in exchange for favorable legislation.

Madigan is implicated but has not been charged, and he says he says the information he is turning over per a federal subpoena will exonerate him.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].

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