Crime & Law
Ex-ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore Begins Prison Sentence in Madigan Bribery Conspiracy Case
Former Commonwealth Edison CEO Anne Pramaggiore walks out of Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Monday, July 21, 2025, after being sentenced to two years in prison and a $750,000 fine in connection to a bribery scheme centered on former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. (Andrew Adams / Capitol News Illinois)
The former head of Commonwealth Edison and Exelon who conspired to bribe ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has reported to prison to begin serving a two-year sentence.
Anne Pramaggiore, who was convicted along with three other former ComEd officials in 2023, has begun serving her sentence at the federal correctional institution in Marianna, Florida, according to federal records.
Federal prosecutors at trial claimed Pramaggiore, 67, was a key leader in a yearslong criminal conspiracy that sought to “corrupt the highest levels of state government” by bribing Madigan to secure his support on critical energy legislation that was beneficial to ComEd.
She and three others — Madigan’s longtime confidant Michael McClain, ex-ComEd consultant Jay Doherty and former ComEd exec John Hooker — were convicted of bribery conspiracy and willfully falsifying the company’s books as part of the 2023 “ComEd Four” trial.
Prosecutors alleged the group plotted to provide “a continuous stream of benefits” to “corruptly influence and reward” Madigan.
The four did so by arranging for ComEd to pay $1.3 million to Madigan allies who were hired as subcontractors, but who actually did virtually no work for the utility company. Rather than paying them directly, prosecutors said the defendants arranged for them to be paid through an intermediary — Doherty — in an effort to conceal the payments.
“You had the power to stop this,” U.S. District Judge Manish Shah told Pramaggiore in July 2025 as he handed down her sentence. “You could have said, ‘No, this is not how legislation should be done.’ You had the power to change the culture at ComEd. … When it came to Mr. Madigan and Mr. McClain, you didn’t think to change the culture of corruption. Instead, you were all in.”
Pramaggiore’s three codefendants have each already begun serving their respective prison terms. McClain received a two-year sentence, Hooker got an 18-month sentence, and Doherty was handed a one-year sentence.
Madigan, 83, was convicted on corruption charges in a separate trial early last year and is currently serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence at a correctional center in West Virginia.
Prison records show he has a projected release date of Feb. 12, 2032.
