Legendary Madigan precinct captain Ed Moody takes stand in ‘ComEd Four’ bribery trial
The four defendants charged in the ComEd bribery scheme are, from left, consultant Jay Doherty, lobbyist and former ComEd executive John Hooker, retired lobbyist Michael McClain and former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore.
Moody said Madigan’s office decided that “the worst thing you could do is split up twins,” so he and his brother were named co-precinct captains in the 54th precinct. He said he and his brother had a rare, angry confrontation with Madigan after asking him in 2012 for a lobbyist job that paid more money. After Madigan failed to respond, they demanded a meeting at the ward office.
Moody’s testimony comes as prosecutors are preparing to rest their case. Under direct questioning from Assistant U.S. Attorney Diane MacArthur, he talked in mostly a very relaxed and polished fashion, sometimes jumping the gun with his answer before hearing the full question. They were the go-to twins dispatched all over the state when Madigan needed to turn around the voters in a critical legislative district in the heat of the campaign. And they did it time after time since the mid-1990s.
The indictment also alleged the defendants schemed to hire a clout-heavy law firm run by political operative Victor Reyes and stack the utility’s summer internship program with candidates sent from the 13th Ward. Moody will testify that the work “was a ‘joke,’ because there was no substance to it,” prosecutors said in a pretrial filing.
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