“The speaker recalls attending several meetings with Ald. Solis over the past five years, including meetings with individuals in need of legal representation,” Heather Wier Vaught, a private attorney for the speaker who also is registered to lobby state government for clients including Major League Baseball, the NBA, the PGA Tour and Commonwealth Edison, said in a statement. “If indeed, some of his conversations were being recorded, the speaker did not know that, but he has no concern if they were.”