Overview
- U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland sentenced Marquez to two years of probation and a $50,000 fine and declined to impose community service.
- Marquez began cooperating in January 2019 and secretly recorded key players, producing audio and video that anchored central allegations against the former Illinois House speaker.
- He pleaded guilty in 2020 to conspiracy to commit bribery, and prosecutors honored a deal to recommend probation in recognition of his extensive cooperation and trial testimony.
- Madigan is serving a 7½-year federal sentence, and the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has set oral arguments in his case for April 9.
- The 2023 ‘ComEd Four’ convictions of Michael McClain, Anne Pramaggiore, John Hooker, and Jay Doherty led to prison terms, with appeals for McClain and Pramaggiore set for April 14; prosecutors earlier dropped a retrial of McClain in Madigan’s case after a jury deadlock.