CHICAGO – Testimony in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and his advisor Michael McClain is now in its second week and on Tuesday, Madigan’s lawyers worked to ...

Karen Conti, Partner at Conti & Dolan LLC, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the Madigan corruption trial, and highlight the fact that there is a difference between what is “immoral” and what is actually ...

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In one letter – shown to four federal juries in the last two years – McClain effusively praised his close friend, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, referring to him as his “real ...

Jurors in Michael Madigan’s corruption trial on Monday heard a key wiretapped phone call in which the speaker’s longtime confidant told him about a plan to kick payments to a loyal ward aide ...

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

For each vote on the various bills, prosecutors recorded the bill number, the date, and whether Madigan supported it. O’Neill said that in 2011, ComEd lobbyists worked to pass the Energy ...

In March 2022, Madigan and McClain were charged with 22 counts of racketeering and bribery for alleged improper dealings with the state’s largest utility, ComEd.

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share Michael J. Madigan’s attorneys tried again Tuesday to distance the former Illinois House speaker from a longtime friend and confidant, pressing ComEd’s onetime ...

Madigan et al is scheduled to resume Wednesday morning at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. Greg Bishop and Brett Rowland contributed to this story. Show comments ...

A sexual harassment scandal had erupted in Springfield in the summer of 2018 and Kevin Quinn, a longtime aide to House Speaker Michael Madigan, was toxic. Quinn, the brother of Madigan’s handpicked ...