In May 2018, ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore called the utility’s longtime top contract lobbyist, Mike McClain, with some news: she was about to be promoted to CEO of Exelon Utilities.
In May 2018, ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore called the utility's longtime top contract lobbyist, Mike McClain, with some news: she was about to be promoted to CEO of Exelon Utilities. "Never would've happened without you and John and the speaker," Pramaggiore said on the wiretapped phone call, referring to another of ComEd's longtime lobbyists, John Hooker, and Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan."I mean, really.
On Monday, Pramaggiore indicated that when she said"spirit guides," she was only referring to McClain and Hooker -- two of the three defendants in the case -- but not Madigan, whom she'd called first with the news of her promotion. Madigan was widely known to be skeptical of utilities, and several witnesses in the case said that skepticism was aimed at ComEd in particular after the utility apparently broke his trust in the decadelong electric deregulation process that began in the late 1990s.
"We didn't view him as a friend or an ally," Pramaggiore said of Madigan's relationship to ComEd, outlining the speaker's"classic Democrat, very pro-consumer" stance on utilities. She also said ComEd officials were never quite sure what to make of the influencing effect of Madigan's daughter, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who"was always in opposition to us.
Pramaggiore refuted evidence like emails she was sent or copied on regarding those matters, saying Monday that as a CEO, she was too busy to really read most of them. When the evidence showed she replied to an email with a missive like"on it," Pramaggiore said she was farming them out to those responsible in the company, like ComEd's general counsel or the utility's top in-house lobbyist, Fidel Marquez.
"Did you know who Frank Olivo was?" Lassar asked Pramaggiore, referring to the former Chicago alderman who had been getting paid as a lobbying subcontractor for years."No," Pramaggiore said, answering the same way to Lassar's questions about whether she or Marquez mentioned the name Mike Madigan during the call.
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