‘How else can we help you?’ Jurors hear and see Madigan’s vast patronage system inside ComEd

Michael McClain meets Fidel Marquez, then a ComEd executive, at a Springfield restaurant. Photo is from video secretly recorded by Marquez. (U.S. attorney’s office)

A close confidant of Michael J. Madigan sat down with a new ComEd CEO in March 2019 and explained how the then-powerful Illinois House speaker had long viewed the massive utility as an “old-fashioned patronage system.”