>>> IT HAS BEEN ABOUT SIX WEEKS OF REPORTED PHONE CALLS AND MEETINGS AND TESTIMONY ABOUT THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ONE ILLINOIS MOST POWERFUL COMPANIES AND ONE ILLINOIS MOST POWERFUL POLITICIANS.

HOW JURORS VIEW IT COULD COME DOWN TO WHAT HAPPENED IN COURT TODAY AND WHAT HAPPENS TOMORROW AS ALL OF THE ACTION IS DISTILLED IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS.

AT THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE TODAY AND JOINING ME NOW.

AMANDA THOMAS.

>> Reporter: THEY DETERMINE WHETHER THE DEFENDANT COLLECTIVELY KNOWN FOR THE COMMENTS OR PART OF THE CONSPIRACY TO BRIBE MICHAEL MADIGAN IN EXCHANGE FOR JOBS AND FAVORS FOR HIS ALLIES.

IT ISN'T HYPERBOLE TO SAY THAT SO MUCH COMES DOWN TO THESE LAST COUPLE DAYS.

WHAT IS SAID IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS WILL BE QUESTIONED IN JURORS MINDS.

IT HAS BEEN A LENGTHY TRIAL WITH FOUR DEFENDANTS COVERING COMPLEX GROUND, POLITICS, PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE AND NUCLEAR ENERGY IN THE ELECTRIC GRID.

PROSECUTORS SAY IT IS SIMPLE ENOUGH THAT THE DEFENDANTS ARE A CLOSE KNIT GROUP OF CONSPIRATORS THAT PLOTTED TO GIVE A CONTINUOUS STREAM OF BENEFITS TO CORRUPTLY INFLUENCE AND REWARD MADIGAN.

AS THE ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY REPEATED TO DRILL HOME THE POINT, IT WAS A CYCLE THAT HE WANTED, COMMENT GAVE AND COMMENTS GOT.

WHEN HE JUMPED, THE DEFENDANT ASKED HOW HIGH.

HIRING PAID INTERNS FOR HIS AWARD THAT HAD GPAs BELOW THE COMPANIES CUT OFF.

HELLO?

THE JURY ONCE AGAIN SAID HOW LUCRATIVE THIS COULD ALL BE FOR SOME OF HIS RECOMMENDED HIRES.

HERE IS A VIDEO THAT PUT THE HIRES ON HIS PAYROLL.

>> I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO ELSE KNOWS THIS.

JOHN CALLS AND SAID I HAVE GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU.

>> A SUBCONTRACTOR.

>> WE ARE GOING TO PAY THEM EVERY MONTH.

>> IS NOT THE END HOW DOHERTY HELD UP FOUR FINGERS AS IN $4000 A MONTH.

PROSECUTORS SAY THAT ONE OF MANY INDICATIONS THAT IT WAS A SCHEME FOR THE INTER-CIRCLE INTENTIONALLY KEPT PRIVATE.

HE DID SAY THAT $4000 OUT LOUD.

OF THE 13 WORD, FRANK LEIVA WAS PAID $368,000 IN 2011 UNTIL MAY 2019 FOR LITTLE TO NO WORK.

ONE OF SEVERAL SUCH CONTRACTORS.

A POINT THAT AGAIN, PROSECUTORS DRILLED TO JURORS WITH THE VIDEO.

>> ALL OF THESE GUYS , YOU CUT THEM A CHECK.

DID THEY DO -- WHAT DID THEY DO?

WHAT DO YOU HAVE THEM DOING?

>> NOT MUCH.

NOT MUCH.

>> WE CANNOT SHOW IT BECAUSE NO PHOTOS OR COPY OF SLIDESHOWS, THE RECORDINGS FROM COURT ALLOWED.

BUT THE ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY SHOWS THE TIMELINE OF FOLKS RECOMMENDED BY HIM THAT GOT CONTRACTS AND THEN -- SOMETIMES IT WAS RIGHT BEFORE A PASS.

IN WHICH CASE, THE JOB WAS ALLEGEDLY MET TO INFLUENCE MADIGAN.

OTHER TIMES, IT WAS RIGHT AFTER, THEN THERE WAS A REWARD.

THEY WERE NOT JUST FOR GOODWILL, IT WAS PART OF AN ATTEMPT TO CORRUPTLY INFLUENCE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.

THEY ALSO SAID THAT THE DEFENDANT TESTIFIED DURING THE TRIAL, FORMER CEO AND JOHN LIED ON THE STAND.

SHE SAID SHE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE SUBCONTRACTORS UNDER THE CONNECTION UNTIL THE INVESTIGATION WAS HELD BACK IN 2019.

THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PLAYED TAPES OF A CALL FROM A YEAR EARLIER.

THEY SAY IT PROVES THAT THAT IS A LIE.

>> HAVE THEY GOTTEN A CHANCE TO REPLY TO ALL OF THIS?

>> THEY ARE GETTING STARTED WITH ALL OF THAT.

MADIGAN IS CLOSE PALS WITH McLEAN, THEY MADE THEIR CLOSING ARGUMENTS.

THEY DID NOT PLAY ANY TAPE OR VIDEOS OR COMBAT ANY PARTICULAR LINES FROM THEM.

RATHER, SHE ARGUED THAT WHILE JURORS MAY NOT LIKE WHAT THEY HEARD, THEY MAY NOT LIKE ANYTHING ABOUT POLITICS AND LOBBIES, IT IS ALL ABOVE BOARD.

MOST OF IT, HE SAID, WAS EVIDENT THAT McLEAN WAS REALLY GOOD AT LOBBYING.

THAT McLEAN AND THE OTHER DEFENDANTS WERE NOT SO GREAT AT COMMITTING A CONSPIRACY THAT HE SAYS IT NEVER EXISTED.

THE PROSECUTION FAILED UTTERLY IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO PROVE ONE AND THAT THEY OFFERED NO WITNESSES, NO SIT INS, THAT WOULD HELP COMBAT THE LEGISLATION.

THE DEFENSE ARGUES THAT NO ONE FROM THE GROUP EVER EVEN ASKED MADIGAN FOR SUCH A FAVOR.

ALL OF THE HUBBUB ABOUT THOSE JOB RECOMMENDATIONS, THERE WAS NOTHING NEFARIOUS ABOUT IT.

HER ATTORNEY ALSO SAYS MADIGAN WAS NEVER A FRIEND.

RATHER THAT HIS CLIENT LACKED BETTER INSTINCT ON REPEATED CALLS BECAUSE SHE WAS A SUCCESSFUL CEO.

WHICH SHE SAID ALSO IS NOT A CRIME.

HER ATTORNEY SAYS THE HIRES SHE MADE MORE FOR REAL JOBS AND THAT MAKES THEM LEGAL.

GRANTED, THE ATTORNEYS FOR DOHERTY, THEY GET THE TURN TOMORROW.

AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS ONE FINAL SAY BEFORE IT GOES TO JURY.

MEANWHILE AS McLEAN REPORTED, THEY ARE ASKING STATE REGULATORS FOR A HIKE IN