Federal jurors have begun to deliberate the case against four former political power players who were labeled Tuesday “grand masters of corruption' for their alleged conspiracy to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan to benefit ComEd.
The deliberations come after six weeks of trial. Jurors heard from about 50 witnesses. And they heard a cache of secret FBI recordings resulting from an aggressive probe dating back to 2014 aimed at the once-powerful Southwest Side Democrat.
Jurors retired to begin their deliberations at 3:01 p.m. Tuesday after listening to roughly eight hours of closing arguments. The final pitches were made Tuesday, first by attorneys for Hooker and Doherty, and then by Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu, section chief of public corruption and organized crime.
Bhachu also rejected the argument that ComEd made significant concessions while negotiating the bills at issue in the case. That legislation took ComEd from a "dire" financial position in the 2000s to record earnings in 2022. While addressing that allegation, Bhachu displayed the words "This Is Not a Cup of Coffee" on a screen in the courtroom.
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