The jury asked for more copies of wiretap ... of value" if they are paid through bribery. Madigan and his longtime political ally Michael McClain face a 23-count indictment charging them with ...

(The Center Square) – Jurors started deliberating at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago. Judge John Robert Blakey handed the case to the jury ...

CHICAGO -- A federal judge on Monday granted a partial retrial on several bribery counts in the case of four former ...

Some seemed to be downright incompetent, Marquez told the jury. “I know that they were brought on as a favor to Michael Madigan,” Marquez testified on direct examination. “For Madigan to see ...

A federal judge Monday granted a new trial on some counts in the “ComEd Four” case involving former House Speaker Michael ...

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah tossed four of the nine counts on which the “ComEd Four” were convicted, agreeing with ...

The jury deadlocked on several counts — including the marquee racketeering conspiracy charge that accused Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain of running Madigan’s operations like a ...