Prosecutors highlight donations in ComEd bribery case – Center Square

Former Commonwealth Edison Senior Vice President Fidel Marquez told jurors the state's most powerful politician once demanded that the utility giant raise at least $450,000 to fill the coffers of the Democratic Party of Illinois he controlled, with the request coming at a time when the company was frantically pushing a lucrative utility bill that sailed through in Springfield later that same year.

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