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ComEd to pay $200M over bribery, Illinois speaker implicated

by Associated Press
| July 17, 2020 8:03 AM

CHICAGO (AP) — Electric utility ComEd has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a long-running bribery scheme that implicates Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, long considered the state's most powerful lawmaker.

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