Jurors hear tape of EX-Illinois Speaker 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 ...
Ex-ComEd executive, crucial witness against ex-Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan, takes stand in corruption trial
The former ComEd vice president who secretly recorded his colleagues as part of a federal corruption probe began testifying ...
Madigan jurors hear ally complaining to speaker's son about those who don’t get ‘what happens when you’re in this game’
In this 2007 photo, then Rep. Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, center, was sworn in as state House speaker in Springfield. From left are daughter and former state Attorney General Lisa Madigan; son Andrew ...
Mike Madigan trial updates: Star witness testifies in former Illinois House speaker trial
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun. Madigan had been indicted ...
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Madigan co-defendant had unparalleled access to speaker, ex-top aide testifies
McClain’s access to the often-elusive Madigan – and the rare trust the speaker placed in McClain – are central to federal ...
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Ex-ComEd VP, crucial witness against Madigan, takes stand in corruption trial
So when a cryptic email was forwarded to him in 2013 from Michael McClain, a longtime associate of House Speaker Michael Madigan, asking that ComEd shift a contract for one of Madigan’s top 13th ...
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Former Madigan lieutenant gives jurors in corruption case insider look at speaker’s power
A former lieutenant for Michael Madigan walked the jury through all the ways that Madigan had control, saying the speaker was ...
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‘It was important that the speaker referred him,’ ex-ComEd lawyer testifies in Madigan trial
Prosecutors allege the board appointment of Juan Ochoa was one of many political favors that ComEd bestowed on Madigan in ...
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Madigan corruption trial proceeds with former ComEd exec beginning testimony
As part of the agreement, the utility admitted it paid $1.3 million in do-nothing or do-little jobs and contracts to associates of Madigan over nine years to influence the former House speaker ...