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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

On witness stand, former ComEd CEO denies knowing contractors were tied to Madigan: ‘I didn’t know who they were’

Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore spent a full day Monday testifying in her defense, confronting recordings presented by prosecutors in her bribery case. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

A month after he began to cooperate with the FBI, then-ComEd executive Fidel Marquez helped the feds secretly record a phone call that would become key to their case against rising-star energy executive Anne Pramaggiore.

Marquez told Pramaggiore that people working for a ComEd contractor “pretty much collect a check” and that messing around with it could mean things could go “bad for us in Springfield.” Pramaggiore warned him about what could happen if somebody “gets their nose out of joint.”

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