Prosecutors say no reason for new trial in ComEd Four case

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(The Center Square) – Federal prosecutors said the four former lobbyists and utility executives convicted in the ComEd Four trial last year don’t need a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the federal bribery statute. 

Defense attorneys for the four former Commonwealth Edison executives and lobbyists convicted of bribing one of the state’s most powerful politicians had asked a judge for a new trial.

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