As Mayor Lightfoot demands answers from ComEd over federal probe, her security chief’s wife lists the utility as a lobbying client – Chicago Tribune

Margaret Houlihan Smith in October added ComEd to her lobbying clients, and listed dozens of city departments she might lobby on the utility’s behalf, including the mayor’s office, according to city records.
The arrangement has raised questions about the kind of information Houlihan Smith might be privy to and the kind of access she could promise. But the mayor’s office said it saw no issues with her security chief, James Smith, being married to a lobbyist for ComEd.
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debtsor
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Glennon

ComEd has more secret agents in IL government than the CIA.

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