CHICAGO — Michael Madigan was so important to ComEd’s legislative agenda in Springfield that the utility was willing to bend over backwards to make the then-powerful House speaker happy ...

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

CHICAGO (WGN) — Defense lawyers delivered closing arguments Monday in the political corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Madigan’s defense team took aim at the ...

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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 ...

After more than three months, dozens of witnesses and hundreds of audio recordings, the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan will soon be in the hands of a jury. Closing arguments ...

CHICAGO — After three months of testimony and secret undercover recordings, closing arguments in the federal corruption trial of Michael Madigan began Wednesday. Former Illinois Speaker and ...

Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain pleaded not guilty to 23 counts of bribery, racketeering and official misconduct in a trial that began with jury selection on Oct. 8. Chicago attorney Sam ...

But Blakey cited two 7th Circuit opinions from the past decade that he said offered the clearest guidance. The first says an agent “acts corruptly when he understands that the p ...

(The Center Square) – Jurors are off until next year at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker ... Following Cretal, Madigan defense attorney Lari Dierks called former ...

The outcome of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption trial will be watched closely well beyond Chicago’s federal courthouse, with the verdict representing a potential ...

The deal was being put together by then-Chicago ... Madigan instructed Solis to reach out to Michael McClain to see if he could help. McClain was Madigan’s top adviser and the trial’s Madigan ...