to illegally steer business to Madigan’s private tax appeals law firm. Madigan’s attorneys summoned Wier Vaught, who once served as chief legal counsel in the Office of the Speaker ...

On Monday, Madigan’s defense team gave McClain a new nickname: “Mr. Important.” Madigan attorney Dan Collins began to drop the moniker into his commentary Monday as closing arguments ...

“Job recommendations without more, are legal,” Madigan attorney Dan Collins told the jury Monday morning at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. “There has to be a this for that,” ...

Cox said he would talk with Madigan's law partner, Bud Getzendanner, to "make sure Madigan wasn't voting" on bills that affected the Chicago law firm's clients. Defense attorneys argued this was a ...

Madigan’s attorney Dan Collins argued against the introduction of a recorded conversation between Solis and his friend, Brian Hynes, on Oct. 14, 2014. “It would be unbelievably unfair to us ...

Jury deliberations are approaching the one-week mark at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain. The jury got the case last Wednesday aft ...