Less than two weeks before the federal ComEd bribery conspiracy trial, prosecutors have revealed in a court filing that a longtime confidant of Speaker Michael Madigan was interviewed twice by federal authorities before the probe became public.
Less than two weeks before the federal ComEd Four bribery conspiracy trial, prosecutors revealed in a court filing that a confidant of former Speaker Michael Madigan was interviewed twice by federal authorities before the probe became public about his use of code words to refer to the longtime House leader.
The revelation that McClain was twice confronted by the FBI with questions involving Madigan comes less than two weeks before McClain is set to go on trial March 6 along with three others on bribery conspiracy charges related to ComEd’s alleged attempts to illegally influence the then-powerful House speaker.
Prosecutors contend McClain’s admissions about the use of coded language “clearly show that McClain did not want any eavesdroppers to know the true subject of his communications and are therefore wholly consistent with the indictment and the government’s evidence at trial: ‘our Friends’ and ‘a friend of ours’ were terms designed to conceal Madigan’s identity.”
The feds also want to show jurors that they intercepted a call in which Madigan asked McClain to help secure a job for an unidentified state representative’s wife. In the July 2, 2018, phone call, Madigan allegedly said the representative “came to me and same story, he needs money, and he had the thought that maybe I could help his wife on something,” according to the filing.
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