ComEd’s lobbying team got the go-ahead in 2018 to kill the Illinois attorney general’s proposal to give low-income consumers a break on electric bills with the blessing of her father, Speaker of the Illinois House Michael Madigan, according to a witness.
Commonwealth Edison’s lobbying team got the go-ahead in 2018 to kill the Illinois attorney general’s proposal to give low-income consumers a break on their electric bills with the blessing of her father, Speaker of the Illinois House Michael Madigan.
“A friend of ours alerted me and thereby us to this initiative and the concept of an amendment. As we all know that was code for we can go ahead and kill it,” McClain’s email read.“Our friend” was how McClain commonly referred to Madigan. By 2018, though, ComEd was well into an alleged bribery scheme fixated on making and keeping Madigan happy.
Marquez says McClain was known as a “double agent” because while the lobbyist was loyal to ComEd, it was known within ComEd circles that McClain was even more loyal to Madigan. Marquez said even as the executive at ComEd in charge of managing lobbying contracts, he initially did not know the subcontractors were on the company’s payroll, given that they had no work assignments and they were paid through other contracts.
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