State House Speaker Mike Madigan’s former hand-picked alderman was once named Tuesday as probably the most robust Southwest Side Democrat’s pals who was once on ComEd’s payroll in spite of doing very little paintings.
Testifying earlier than the Illinois House committee investigating Madigan, David Glockner, ComEd’s govt vp of compliance and audit, recognized Frank Olivo as probably the most individuals who won one of the $1.three million that the software paid to Madigan’s pals in what amounted to a ghost-payrolling scheme at a time when ComEd was once in the hunt for the speaker’s strengthen for regulation.
Glockner declined to substantiate whether or not the Frank Olivo he recognized as Associate No. 2 within the software corporate’s deferred prosecution settlement was once the previous 13th Ward alderman.
But a federal subpoena issued to Madigan’s place of work named Olivo as smartly — and tied him to Madigan’s 13th Ward.
Olivo and the U.S. Attorney’s Office didn’t reply to requests for remark.
The data got here out Tuesday in the second one assembly of the House particular investigation committee known as for in a petition filed by way of House Republican Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs.
The listening to convened lower than an hour after former ComEd govt Fidel Marquez pleaded to blame to a corruption price in an ongoing legal probe into an alleged political bribery scheme that has implicated Madigan and others.
Marquez and the software each agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors. The transfer may in the long run assist Marquez keep away from jail.
The committee took turns wondering Glockner about ComEd’s dealings with Madigan and the July deferred prosecution settlement that implicated the speaker within the software’s alleged $1.three million bribery scheme.
The 3 Democrats and their 3 Republican opposite numbers have argued about the whole lot from how the committee will have to continue to a dialog that they had with U.S. Attorney John Lausch concerning the path in their lawsuits and the which means of Lausch’s next letter that was once meant to spell out the parameters of the panel’s investigation.
On Tuesday, the six-member, bipartisan workforce were given again to the squabbling early, haggling over whether or not or no longer Durkin will have to be allowed to present a gap observation. They additionally argued about whether they will have to admit paperwork into the file and the crowd’s subpoena energy shifting ahead.
The Democratic chair of the committee, state Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch, mentioned it was once “premature” to factor subpoenas at this level within the committee’s lawsuits.
“You’re asking this committee to vote to approve subpoenas we haven’t seen, that we haven’t even discussed,” the Hillside Democrat mentioned. “No one has called me. … That’s not very professional.”
Republican state Rep. Tom Demmer shot again “is it your interpretation of these rules that you alone control whether or not this committee issues subpoenas?”
The committee additionally spent numerous time Tuesday on ComEd’s July deferred prosecution settlement with the feds.
In that settlement, ComEd agreed to pay a $200 million tremendous and admitted that some corporate officers have been curious about a scheme to pay $1.three million to Madigan pals for doing very little paintings so that you could safe his strengthen within the Legislature.
Reading during the settlement’s observation of information, state Rep. Deanne Mazzochi, R-Elmhurst, were given Glockner to substantiate the identities of 2 Madigan pals who allegedly won one of the cash – one recognized as Olivo.
Federal brokers sought data from the speaker’s place of work about Olivo’s employment at ComEd, in addition to “all documents and communications” associated with any efforts to safe employment, contracts or bills for circle of relatives, consistent with the settlement.
Olivo, 67, represented town’s 13th Ward — the place Madigan is the longtime Democratic ward committeeman — from 1994 to 2011 earlier than turning into a lobbyist for ComEd and returning to the City Council to foyer his…