I’ve been watching Sopranos lately, and a few times they’ve talked about construction jobs, the unions, and getting ‘no show’ jobs (whatever they are) and I realised a lot of Organised Crime I’ve heard about always seems to be tied them, yet I have no idea how it makes so much money for them.
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Currently a case in Illinois where the legislature leadership, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, said “nice nuclear plant, shame if someone regulated it away” or whatever and in return [“ComEd arranged payments to Madigan’s associates through third-party vendors to conceal the size of the payments and to assist ComEd in denying responsibility for oversight of Madigan’s associates, who in some instances did little to none of the work for which they were hired.”](https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-illinois-speaker-house-indicted-federal-racketeering-and-bribery-charges)
The CEO of Comed was [found guilty](https://news.wttw.com/2023/05/02/jurors-reach-verdict-comed-four-bribery-case) and the case included testimony from the no shows:
>In one of those conversations from early 2019, Marquez asked Doherty about the subcontractors: “Do they do anything or what do they do? What do you have them doing?”
>Doherty replied: “Not much.” He then goes on to warn Marquez, saying he wouldn’t “tinker” with the specifics of the contract.
>“Your money comes from Springfield, ComEd money,” Doherty said in the recording. “My bottom line advice would be, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it with those guys.”
>One of those subcontractors, former precinct captain Ed Moody, testified that while he received a ComEd paycheck, he did minimal work for the company and believed he was actually being paid to continue working as a political operative on Madigan-connected campaigns.
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