John Hooker is the first of four former ComEd officials set to be sentenced in the coming weeks. Prosecutors say he, like ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Federal prosecutors want a former ComEd lobbyist to spend more than four years in prison. They filled a sentencing memo in the case of John Hooker, asking for a 56-month sentence.