Defense in Madigan corruption trial confronts star government witness over jobs, favors
Defense attorneys in the Michael Madigan corruption trial began their cross-examination of a key witness Tuesday by trying to ...
Chicago Tribune23d
Corrupt political boss or defender of his constituents? Madigan trial begins in earnest
Former House Speaker Michael Madigan may have spent decades at the pinnacle of Illinois politics, but at his core he was simply a soft-spoken, nonconfrontational Southwest Side guy trying to ...
Secret recordings give Madigan jurors inside look at patronage, payments, danger of putting pen to paper
Prosecutors have begun to firm up one of the key pillars of their case, alleging Michael Madigan accepted bribes from ComEd ...
Both sides rest after jury sees emails from Speaker Madigan’s son in bribery trial of ex-AT&T boss
When AT&T Illinois boss Paul La Schiazza received an email from the son of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan asking for ...
‘This is the way things are done in Illinois’: Defense attorneys begin cross-examining star witness
The former chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison has spent the last week telling a federal jury how he bent ...
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Jurors hear first wiretaps in Madigan corruption trial, recordings that suggested ex-speaker was hands-on boss
A lawyer for former House Speaker Michael Madigan told jurors at the outset of his corruption trial that the Democratic powerhouse was “completely ignorant” of what people were saying behind ...
Quincy Herald-Whig7d
‘They were being paid as a favor to Mike Madigan’: Feds’ star witness takes stand
As chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison, Fidel Marquez had an expansive role that put him in charge of ...
Journal Gazette and Times Courier13d
Testimony in Madigan corruption trial turns to 2018 sex harassment scandal
In June 2018, the day House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff had quit amid a burgeoning sexual harassment ...
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Feds’ star witness takes stand in Madigan trial
As chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison, Fidel Marquez had an expansive role that put him in charge of “approximately 130, 135 people.” But in June 2013, more than a year into that ...
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'They were being paid as a favor to Mike Madigan': Feds’ star witness takes stand
Marquez’s direct boss, ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore ... McClain informed Marquez that Moody was “someone that was important to Mike Madigan,” Illinois’ longtime House speaker, and that ...