Column: Payoff is a payoff even if it doesn’t pay off – Champaign News-Gazette*

Jim Dey: "The four defendants in the high-profile ComEd bribery conspiracy case have asked U.S. Judge Harry Leinenweber to dismiss the charges against them. Their defense, expressed in stellar legal motions citing numerous court cases, amounts to the following — even if we did all the things the government says we did, we didn’t do nuttin. Nothing illegal, they mean."