By Michael Miner
Chipper voice: “Charles, it’s Adrienne Levatino at Unicom ComEd. Umm, I actually have [senior vice president] David Helwig on the phone. I was going to conference us in to talk with you about the report. I don’t know how long he’s going to be there tonight. If he’s going to be there for a while I’ll call back and give you his number. Thanks.”
Helwig: “Yeah, sure.”
Levatino: “Oh no you don’t! No. You don’t want to do that. You don’t want to do that, David, because for the rest of your life–”
Helwig: “We’ll be around here like 45 minutes–”
Levatino: “Thanks. Bye.”
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Levatino says she was the victim of a utility breakdown. She thought she’d clicked off Nicodemus’s line, but a blown transformer in the phone system betrayed her. She found out what had happened several days later, when Nicodemus called “and left me a message saying he wished I would have the intelligence to hang up the phone before I entered into colloquies–that was his word–with my colleagues.”
