The feds are investigating whether ComEd hired politically connected consultants — some with ties to powerful Illinois House Speaker and state Democratic Party boss Michael Madigan — in order to win favorable government actions in Springfield, including electricity rate hikes.
“Federal regulatory documents show ComEd paid Jenner & Block nearly $2.4 million in 2019 — more than what the power company had reported paying the law firm in the previous four years combined.” vs. “Law firm Jenner & Block is sued for $3.8 million in unpaid rent, in first big Chicago office space leasing lawsuit of COVID-19 pandemic” https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/ryan-ori/ct-biz-coronavirus-lawsuit-jenner-and-block-rent-payments-ryan-ori-20200529-7brsyzldfza6vpaovltco65wpa-story.html Makes you wonder a little bit about Jenner’s finances. They’re a multinational law firm, one of the biggest in the world, and they’re on the take from MadiganEd for $2.9 mil for some state politics issues? Really?… Read more »
True Believer
5 years ago
RINO John Lausch and the rest of the deep state losers will do nothing to stop Madigan. He and the rest of the pro machine us attorney combine scum have let the Democratic machine slide and have not investigated nor prosecuted the Daley’s, Rahm, Madigan, Patricia Van Pelt, the black caucus and others. The indictment of Burke by Lausch was only window dressing to help Lori get elected by taking out Daley, Preckwinkle and Mendoza.
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.
“Federal regulatory documents show ComEd paid Jenner & Block nearly $2.4 million in 2019 — more than what the power company had reported paying the law firm in the previous four years combined.” vs. “Law firm Jenner & Block is sued for $3.8 million in unpaid rent, in first big Chicago office space leasing lawsuit of COVID-19 pandemic” https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/ryan-ori/ct-biz-coronavirus-lawsuit-jenner-and-block-rent-payments-ryan-ori-20200529-7brsyzldfza6vpaovltco65wpa-story.html Makes you wonder a little bit about Jenner’s finances. They’re a multinational law firm, one of the biggest in the world, and they’re on the take from MadiganEd for $2.9 mil for some state politics issues? Really?… Read more »
RINO John Lausch and the rest of the deep state losers will do nothing to stop Madigan. He and the rest of the pro machine us attorney combine scum have let the Democratic machine slide and have not investigated nor prosecuted the Daley’s, Rahm, Madigan, Patricia Van Pelt, the black caucus and others. The indictment of Burke by Lausch was only window dressing to help Lori get elected by taking out Daley, Preckwinkle and Mendoza.