ComEd Dumps Cache Of Emails Relating To Illinois House’s Madigan Probe

By Dave McKinney, Tony Arnold, Dan Mihalopoulos

Wednesday, Nov. 25, 4:46 p.m. CTUpdated Thursday, Nov. 26, 8:38 a.m. CT

Documents provided by Commonwealth Edison revealed Wednesday that Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan – who also co-owns one of Chicago’s biggest property-tax appeal firms – appeared to show repeated interest in who was doing “property tax work” for the largest utility in Illinois.

And the documents also disclosed for the first time that the power company secretly paid a $4,500 monthly consulting fee to Democratic Cook County Recorder of Deeds Ed Moody, a key Madigan ally and veteran precinct captain from the speaker’s home ward on the Southwest Side of Chicago.

Those payments to Moody were filtered through two ex-ComEd lobbyists who were charged in a federal bribery indictment last week, according to the newly released emails.

The disclosures came from a Thanksgiving eve document drop by the company in response to a request from an Illinois House committee investigating possible misconduct by the speaker in ComEd’s bribery-tainted Springfield lobbying efforts.

https://www.wbez.org/stories/house-panel-dumps-comed-emails-in-madigan-probe/e2fe91ee-ceb5-46e4-a5f8-9076f676dc27

Document Dump:

https://ilga.gov/house/committees/Reports.asp?CommitteeID=2657&GA=101