Ex-ComEd CEO testifies she didn't view Madigan as ally of utility
Posted April 13, 2023 1:00 am
Federal jurors have spent five weeks listening to the voice of former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, caught in a cache of secret FBI recordings in which prosecutors say she conspired with her colleagues to bribe then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
But late Thursday, the polished former energy executive and theater major finally got the chance to speak directly to the people who will help decide her fate.
Pramaggiore took the witness stand in the ComEd bribery trial and told the jury she never viewed Madigan as an ally of the utility she led. She also denied that a longtime Madigan friend on trial beside her, Michael McClain, ever claimed that Madigan owed ComEd a favor.
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