Exelon disclosed that the agency notified the company on Oct. 22 of an investigation it had opened into Exelon and ComEd’s “lobbying activities," according to the company's quarterly filing today with the SEC.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago also is probing the lobbying practices of the two companies in Illinois. Exelon revealed in mid-July that it had received that subpoena.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.