Closer...Closer....
- Federal prosecutors implicated Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan on Friday in a brazen, Chicago-style bribery scheme involving ComEd that allegedly went on for years and involved payments to Madigan associates exceeding $1.3 million.
Though the stunning, lengthy details were revealed in documents that charged only ComEd — and not Madigan — with bribery, they said ComEd has agreed to “fully and truthfully cooperate” with federal prosecutors. The company has agreed to pay a $200 million fine and acknowledged it sought Madigan’s help for legislation that could be worth more than $150 million to the utility company.
And a federal subpoena for records from Madigan’s office issued Friday and obtained by the Sun-Times shows that ComEd isn’t the only company with a relationship with the speaker that the feds are interested in. The feds requested records from the speaker’s office regarding AT&T Services Inc, Walgreens and Rush University Medical Center. They are also asking for records that include a wide swath of Madigan’s political operatives, including one current and two former Chicago aldermen, as well as close Madigan ally and lobbyist Michael McClain.
Looks like they're going over his entire "favor" system.
It's also amazing that the previous Illinois Attorney General couldn't ferret out any of this corruption taking place while she was serving holiday dinners to the family. You would think she'd be more observant and all, being a highly qualified and observant crime fighter.
It's also amazing that the previous Illinois Attorney General couldn't ferret out any of this corruption taking place while she was serving holiday dinners to the family. You would think she'd be more observant and all, being a highly qualified and observant crime fighter.
Labels: corruption, state politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
64 Comments:
That is not news, finding a business that has not been forced to bribe Michael Madigan in order to do business in Illinois would be news. Nothing to see here. Move on to the next Democrat scandel.
WAGS going down.
They fucking screw their employees, so they deserve it.
Fuck you, Wally Walgreen.
Oh God we pray pray pray that these career scumbag politicians will finally get caught.
These guys will be dead of old age before any court date.
All bull shit.
Hopefully the Feds kick the bathroom door
down on top of Princess Lisa as she takes
a shit...
>Knock-Knock!<
"Wait a minute! I'm using it..."
>Knock-Knock... KAH-BLOOEY!<
"SCREAM!"
We imagine it's kinda awkward (and a difficult look)
to jump off the pot and jump out the window with one's
drawers around one's ankles...
>Tangle!<
"Ohhh shit!"
>Trip!<
"AAIIEE!"
We'd love to see Lisa sweating under a spot light getting
her ass fried over this donkey-dunged cut & paste
"federal consent decree" that really isn't, that CPD
has been encumbered with.
We're hoping that under a second term of 45, all this
anti-Police nonsense gets backtracked to the originators
and THEY dangle from the lamp posts of public outrage
instead of Policemen.
Even Madigan's prize pet sow has turned against him, saying the speaker should resign. You know, the obese swine caught on tape trying to buy a senate seat from a convicted felon, former governor, ex-con radio talk show host. The blimp also committed tax fraud, buying and trashing a neighboring mansion so that he could claim that he lived in a slum and lower his taxes.
Political Morality 101: Illinois Style. You can't make this shit up.
Madigan is the only Politician protecting your pension once they he is gone the pension cuts and 401k will begin!
I said once, twice , 3x even...
The feds are all talk and aren't good enough to get Madigan and his democrap machine. They got com Ed, at&t and others but slippery democraps can't be GOT. Jag Balls the hut is no better , he should've got GOT with Blagojevich but Obama didn't let it. Illinois has been done
is this the reason the little pipsqueak Luis Gutierrez decided to disappear or was he caught on the aldercrooks wire... or both.
Com Ed has always been big, and always been corrupt.
Good. Supposedly Madigan was Escamerit's juice through his surrogate dad that was a judge. Maybe now the Mayor will have some balls and have him Rule 14'd and fired instead of messing around with the POTUS. The city and department needs to clean up it's own backyard if they ever want to stop being a world wide laughingstock.
What's up Tony?
This animal bankrupted the state and shackled its economy for generations as he and his associates shook down corporations and did property tax appeals and made millions doing it. I hope the Feds rake this greedy little prick over the hot coals.
The only thing that disturbs me is that his replacement will be even more intoerable than he was and a certified racist with a BLM permit to dog caucasions into submission. I've already submitted, I'm up, fools. You dummies that listen to your unions about the progressive income tax and how it will benefit, "working people", you chumps better grab your ankles cuz they are gonna stick it in your backside by taxing pension income and if yours is more generous than social security, by golly! You're RICH! PAY ME!
the only thing better would be if his absolutely useless daughter goes down with daddy.
Nice work, Kwame. No stone unturned.
So they sell us out at a ratio of 1:150 or peanuts. Burke has his own Sword of Damocles.
Wonder who the new bosses will be...Devil you know, and all.
Daddy Daughter Cells are hard to come by, but I am sure we can oblige the needs to have one for the dynamic duo...mike and Lisa Mad-Again.
They probably could add peoples gas to that list. He strong armed them for jobs.
IIRC, Mooch scored a no show job with Rush.
The truth is more fascinating than fiction:
There's a CPD broad who's on her 4th husband, who's also CPD. She is EXTREMELY close to lil Mike M., even though lil Mike is older than her father. "Close" & hopefully you know what that means. They were "close" since the 90's. Anyway, lil Mike made her 4th husband meritorious sergeant & oh yeah...she's had cushy jobs. Just this year she sold her house to liquidate her assets (based on lil Mike's advice).
Turns out she has a history of getting beefs against coppers (with serious allegations & mysterious results). But now lil Mike is about to make history. What's to become of this CPD woman? You might want to get your popcorn ready.
One more thing, lil Mike had A LOT of influence regarding the CPD for a lot of years. So many others are just a little bit nervous.
T.L.S.
As long as the corporations continue to cooperate with the feds Madigan will be fine. He is already selling this as recommended actions for the companies and is in no way forced upon them. Let me know when he's wearing handcuffs and I'll take interest.
Cab Drivers were the only people dirty hair Lisa Madigan went after.
Burke is next. There is a strong rumor that he is cooperating and don't forget the aldermen who wore a wire for two years. Something tells me that this is only the start, at least I hope so. If the democrats get into the White House next year, that will be the end of all of these investigations. The only thing Eric Holder investigated were cops .
When found guilty they will blame Trump for investigating. All his fault.
1:03am is 100% correct. Careful what you wish for.
Could this reach all the way to Obama?
Lisa Madigan, the Illinois poster girl for nepotism. Simply worthless.
Hey 1:03 spoken like a true Democrat. As long as I get mine I don’t care what he does.
Sadly, this is true.
==Madigan is the only Politician protecting your pension once they he is gone the pension cuts and 401k will begin==
Now it will be on the table. Kelly Cassidy wants his role. Imagine an even more immature version of Marie Newman taking over.
Closer...Closer....
Waiting for that early morning knock on the door?
Don’t hold your breath.
"implicated" is not "indicted"
Take a breath. Fun to read, but he is teflon
Years ago, the old streets and San bureau of electricity was labeled Mike madigan electric.
All the bosses were connected to madigan
webb will be available as soon as he wraps up his big nothing burger investigation in time for election. can't have this shit hanging around. we got bigger fish to protect.
"...and the walls came a tumblin ' down..."
First, name the song.
Then...
Kees me you fool!!!!
I predict that Mike Madigan will come down with some sort of sickness that his lawyer claims precludes him from going to trial. Ala Harvey Weinstein and Mayor Daley style. If there was going to be any justice here, Com-Ed should give some refunds to it's customers. But we wont see a dime.
Governor Blago was heard saying..."See..?" "Now hand me the football..."
Anonymous said...
Even Madigan's prize pet sow has turned against him, saying the speaker should resign. You know, the obese swine caught on tape trying to buy a senate seat from a convicted felon, former governor, ex-con radio talk show host. The blimp also committed tax fraud, buying and trashing a neighboring mansion so that he could claim that he lived in a slum and lower his taxes.
Political Morality 101: Illinois Style. You can't make this shit up.
7/18/2020 12:50:00 AM
And it looks like the United States attorney is looking into trust fund baby also, as they look into the former crook county assessor Joey barrios, they are looking into how trust fund baby actually accomplished the great feat of cheating on his taxes, Lik said above trying to buy the Senate seat how does that work but the JB has billions and billions of dollars he can pay off he can buy it out The same way Commonwealth Edison had to spend $200 million JB spent over $200 million just to buy the governors office to hand that is just spare change.Looks like the swamp may be draining finally in the fourth year of the greatest president in history’s president Donald Trump’s presidency we need another four years to finish cleaning the scum out let’s make America Chicago state of Illinois corruption free make them great again go get them fed!
I continue to pray that the Feds finally put together a case(s) on Madigan and his other guilty associates as a 'start' to clean up Chicago/Illinois politics.
Let the chips fall where they may. Go gettum'!
"THE SPHINCTER TIGHTENS" a thriller authored by John Grisham.
Nothing will happen, deferred 3 year prosecution by RINO Lausch. All buried, and Burke is still making merit scum promotions like Pigott. Lausch waited too long to act. He’s a lori machine ass licking democratic ahole from Beverly. Nothing will happen.
Illinois and Chicago are the most corrupt state and city in the United States!!!!
You have to wonder what took so f#cking long. This son of a bitch has been guilty of this stuff for literally decades. Some ambitious young Federal prosecutor could have made his career out of bringing down Mike Madigan and some of the Animal Farm pigs that run Springfield. You have to believe that they've all been told to stand down, until now.
Thank you, PDJT. Sic 'em boy. Get 'em all.
Doesn't RICO address criminal conspiracy? Does it apply to father/ daughter " families" ?
As much as I despise Mike madigan, he seems like small potatoes compared to Groot and Kim foxx
I like that....
Mad again 👍
Your electric bill is going up next month./
I can only say Madigan went cheap. I thought he took much more lol.
Will the get him for getting all those free tires from motor maintenance, some 30 years ago.
In a better world...Lisa also gets tagged.
Been a registered voter for 40 years...never missed an election, am still waiting for an honest person to win.
The previous Illinois Attorney General should have all her phone call logs, emails, test messages and correspondence turned over to the feds to seek or eliminate she had knowledge or collusion.
You know, that "transparency" thing.
Where has Lisa been? 💤
The parent company of comed, is exelon. Exelon is a 87billion dollar company so 200 million is nothing.
First one on the bus gets the best seat. This "official A" is an old investigative tactic to see who will flip. Maybe the Feds have a good case, maybe they just need a bit more. Time will tell. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Gee did I miss CNN covering the raid on his offices “Roger Stone Style”? Communists get preferential treatment by MSM.
Lisa Madigan would have tripped over political corruption every day on the way into the office (if she ever did go into the office). Instead, she turned the AG Office into a shakedown enterprise, suing businesses for crap they might or might not have done and funneling the loot into leftist causes. She did this for the entirety of her service as AG while the Chicago media covered for her clueless incompetence as a real prosecutor. This current AG Kuame-dude couldn't be more invisible, but he's a total leftist. I'm sure whatever he does everyday is to work against the people of the state and further the leftist agenda.
I don't understand how ComEd could be let off the hook by a simple $200M fine for bribery? $200M is their annual pizza lunch budget. Why weren't actual ComEd Execs taken down in this? Maybe the Feds are "buying" ComEd's cooperation against Madigan and his wide-net of thieves?
Wonder how a mere $200 mil fine equates to what ComEd gained by doing bidness’ just in Chicago alone. Plenty of rate schemes approved the IL Commerce Commission (btw, now run by an in-law of indicted Zalewski, who JB appointed last year by phone order from Madigan, around same time Berrios grantee a tax break), it still has ComEd making money hand over fist thru 2032. ComEd has an annual cash flow in the neighborhood of $7-8 billion.
The city closing of two power plants (actually fined into bankruptcy and eminent domain threats) and are to be converted into commercial real estate could even have Rahm and affiliated Alderthieves on the hook, including Cook Co with those tax bills.
Remember when Larri had a fit because an old ComEd smokestack was demolished and caused a covid dust storm in the community? She allowed the demo permit, then suspended it, then re-instated it....in a week.
That’s some negotiation skill there from a twitchy, manic, angry toad.
ComEd going to refund those rate increases or does the $200 million fine absolve them from that? But the more the Fed implicates (hence the settlement plea) and indictes corrupt Dems including past and present! the more I’d be willing to forego a refund.
IF (and it's a damned big if) the feds actually try to move on him, Magic Mikey will be on a private jet to a non-extradition country before the feds can even get the warrant in front of a judge.
AG=All Good
Expect Madigan to be hospitalized soon for some type of ailment to cause memory loss, trust me.
" Anonymous said...
Lisa Madigan would have tripped over political corruption every day on the way into the office (if she ever did go into the office). Instead, she turned the AG Office into a shakedown enterprise, suing businesses for crap they might or might not have done and funneling the loot into leftist causes. She did this for the entirety of her service as AG while the Chicago media covered for her clueless incompetence as a real prosecutor. This current AG Kuame-dude couldn't be more invisible, but he's a total leftist. I'm sure whatever he does everyday is to work against the people of the state and further the leftist agenda.
7/18/2020 02:47:00 PM"
Scumbag obama and the AG at the time, holder ran the same scam on the federal level. Go after companies and fine them, then tell them they only have to pay half of the fine if they donate to a list of radical left ego's.
Fucking communist scumbags. Hope they get charged with Sedition some day.
Q
"Anonymous said...
Madigan is the only Politician protecting your pension once they he is gone the pension cuts and 401k will begin!
7/18/2020 01:03:00 AM"
Fuck Madigan and fuck you too. Detroit filed bankruptcy and the coppers got 90-95 cents on the dollar. I'll take that haircut in my pension to see all these fucking communist scumbags rot in a 12 X 12 for the rest of their miserable lives.
I can't wait for them to get Groot and Gov. Fat Ass.
Don’t Forget This Scam Too Says:
Don’t forget the Daley’s for rewarding Union Officials with extra pensions for kickbacks in return. Check out the bank accounts, investments, and real estate properties these retired union officials have today for extra pensions they got for working one week in that scheme. They collect double unearned pensions while Chicago , Crook County, and State of Illinois Politicians threaten to cut or defund pensions earned of Municipal Employees, who earned them, and are further screwed out of so much Social Security they also earned, thanks to cuts by Dan Rostenkowski’s unConstitutional Legeslation passed decades ago.
What do you want ? Lock up the meter readers?
You wanna know what's really amazing? All of the city workers (and I mean cops as well) who reside in Madigan's district and vote him in again, again and again, yet trash talk the man every chance they get.
Hypocrites!!!
You wanna know what's really amazing? All of the city workers (and I mean cops as well) who reside in Madigan's district and vote him in again, again and again, yet trash talk the man every chance they get.
Hypocrites!!!
7/19/2020 12:27:00 PM
I like Mikey,he sends postcards were he's dressed like a regular guy LMAO and says how relatable he is to the average Joe. I vote for Mikey each time consistently, and I'm a lifelong Republican
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