![]() ![]() This, prosecutors say, was the so-called “Special Project.”Īccording to the indictment, the unidentified individual was an intermediary for corrupt payments. “AT&T Illinois projected that it would save millions of dollars through the passage of COLR legislation and the elimination of its obligation to provide landline services to all Illinois residents.” “Between in or around 2010 and continuing until in or around 2015, AT&T Illinois unsuccessfully worked to enact legislation in the Illinois General Assembly that would have made it easier to terminate its obligation to provide landline telephone services to all Illinois residents, which was commonly referred to as the carrier of last resort (‘COLR’) obligation,” the indictment states. With these three allies, prosecutors say, AT&T Illinois hoped for a breakthrough in a long-attempted but unrealized legislative ambition. Prosecutors say that the conspiracy involved a third person whose name is shielded in court papers as “Individual FR-1.” ![]() “On or about February 16, 2017, La Schiazza informed AT&T Illinois employees that McClain had been assigned by Madigan to work on AT&T Illinois’s legislation as a ‘Special Project,'” the indictment states. ![]() ![]() All three are now being prosecuted in federal court. It is in that capacity that prosecutors say La Schiazza, 65, used McClain, 75, to influence Madigan, 80. McClain, an attorney whose practice began around 1977, served as a lobbyist and consultant after his tenure as a lawmaker. McClain, who served with Madigan in the House of Representatives for roughly a decade beginning in 1972. The conspiracy also allegedly involved Michael F. Madigan served in the Illinois House of Representatives starting in 1971 and led it as Speaker between 19, when his tenure as a state lawmaker ended. The disgraced executive, Paul La Schiazza, stands accused of one count of conspiracy, one count of corruptly giving something of value to reward a public official, and three counts of using a facility in interstate commerce to promote unlawful activity. Michael Madigan (Screengrab via YouTube)įederal prosecutors charged the former president of AT&T Illinois with conspiring to unlawfully influence the ex-chair of the Prairie State’s Democratic Party and ex-Assembly Speaker Michael Madigan, who himself is facing a battery of corruption allegations earlier this year. ![]()
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