Government attorneys have started their final rebuttal at the bribery, racketeering and official misconduct trial of former ...

CHICAGO — Attorneys ... define it for the jury in Madigan’s case as “acting with knowledge that the person’s conduct is unlawful.” Madigan lawyer Lari Dierks said such a definition ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The defense rested its case in former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's bribery and corruption trial at the Dirksen Federal Building on Thursday. The jury was sent home early ...

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(AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File) CHICAGO (CN) — Defense attorneys for ex-Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan rested their case in the once-powerful politician's federal corruption trial on Thursday ...

Attorneys in the corruption trial ... Madigan’s attorneys had argued that the Snyder decision recast what the word “corruptly” means in the federal bribery statute known as 666, asking the judge to ...

CHICAGO (CBS ... Speaker Michael Madigan. After more than three months of testimony from more than 60 witnesses, what is possibly the largest political corruption trial in Illinois history ...

CHICAGO (WGN ... attorneys make their case in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial. On Monday, various defense witnesses testified about what they ...

In a surprising move, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan will testify ... and is a defendant in the trial. Some of those phone calls also involved former Chicago Ald.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan continues. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...

CHICAGO — Attorneys in the corruption trial of ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan came to court Thursday expecting a drag-out fight about the implications of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on the ...