Reacting to this week's sweeping guilty verdicts in the ComEd Four trial, some state lawmakers are demanding tough new ethics reform.
prosecution as well. We need to arm our local law enforcement officers with judicial oversight on that, the appropriate checks and balances," Curran added.
Despite those checks and balances, one Democratic insider said it's very unlikely a majority of lawmakers would vote for that. He called local state's attorneys "very political figures" who might be tempted to abuse electronic surveillance authority.that I have read and agree
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