Secret recordings give Madigan jurors inside look at patronage, payments, danger of putting pen to paper
Prosecutors have begun to firm up one of the key pillars of their case, alleging Michael Madigan accepted bribes from ComEd ...
Madigan jurors hear ally complaining to speaker's son about those who don’t get ‘what happens when you’re in this game’
Hello? Dumb s——.” The person on the other end of that call was not Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, who resigned in 2021 and is now on trial with McClain for an alleged racketeering ...
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Secret recordings give Madigan jurors look at patronage, payments, danger of putting pen to paper
Prosecutors have begun to firm up one of the key pillars of their case, alleging Michael Madigan accepted bribes from ComEd in exchange for favorable treatment of the utility’s bills in Springfield.
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Former staffer claiming harassment expected to testify in Madigan corruption trial
The Democratic Party of Illinois and political committees controlled by then-Speaker Madigan paid $275,000 to settle the lawsuit. The committees included Friends of Michael J. Madigan and the 13th ...
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Mike Madigan trial updates: Testimony continues in former Illinois House speaker trial
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...
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Jurors hear tape of Madigan being informed of plan to pay ousted aide: ‘Yeah, I think I oughta stay out of it’
Jurors in Michael Madigan’s corruption trial on Monday heard a key wiretapped phone call in which the speaker’s longtime confidant told him about a plan to kick payments to a loyal ward aide ...
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Ex-ComEd VP, crucial witness against Madigan, takes stand in corruption trial
a longtime associate of House Speaker Michael Madigan, asking that ComEd shift a contract for one of Madigan’s top 13th Ward soldiers that Marquez had never heard of, he had some obvious questions.
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Mike Madigan trial updates: Judge denies defense motion to exclude some evidence
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...
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Testimony on Madigan’s #MeToo moment could add intrigue to corruption trial
Seven years ago almost to the day, Alaina Hampton sent a private letter to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan about sexual harassment from a co-worker that became a turning point in Madigan’s ...
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Ex-ComEd executive, crucial witness against ex-Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan, takes stand in corruption trial
CHICAGO — The former ComEd vice president who secretly recorded his colleagues as part of a federal corruption probe began testifying against ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan on Tuesday ...
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Madigan corruption trial proceeds with former ComEd exec beginning testimony
Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain are on trial for what prosecutors allege was a nearly decade long scheme to personally benefit themselves and their associates by using Madigan's office as ...
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Former staffer claiming harassment expected to testify in Madigan corruption trial
(The Center Square) – The public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain is set to resume Monday at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in ...