Former ComEd lobbyist John Hooker (from left), former City Club President Jay Doherty, former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and Michael McClain, longtime confidant of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. | Pat Nabong; Ashlee Rezin; Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times-file
By Jon Seidel | Chicago Sun*Times
Four former ComEd executives and lobbyists are on a clear path to sentencing for their conspiracy aimed at ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, despite a last-minute challenge to their convictions and President Donald Trump’s review of a key law in the case.
Madigan ally Michael McClain, former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, ex-ComEd lobbyist John Hooker and onetime City Club President Jay Doherty are all set to be sentenced this summer. A jury found them guilty more than two years ago, in May 2023.
On Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Streicker told U.S. District Judge Manish Shah that officials in Washington, D.C., had rejected a challenge to the convictions based on Trump’s ordered review of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The former executives and lobbyists were found guilty of four counts tied to the corrupt practices act, accusing them of falsifying ComEd’s books and records. Defense attorneys objected earlier this year to setting summer sentencing dates, stressing that the review could come out in their favor.
Separately, the defense attorneys had also recently challenged the convictions under the U.S. Supreme Court’s March decision revolving around the 2022 conviction of former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson.
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