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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

ComEd was pressured to hire politically connected law firm as it fought for key bills in Springfield, former top official testifies

Michael McClain, a longtime confidant to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, walks into the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

ComEd’s financial future might have been on the line with a hard-fought bill pending before the Illinois legislature late in 2011, but the utility’s top lawyer at the time suddenly found himself under pressure to deal with another priority, he testified Tuesday. 

Signing the law firm of political operative Victor Reyes to an unusual three-year contract with ComEd, which guaranteed Reyes’ firm 850 hours of legal work a year.

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