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Jury sees more evidence surrounding payments to Madigan campaign worker ousted for sexual harassment
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 ...
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Ex-ComEd exec testifies Madigan's support was crucial to key bills it sought — but at a price
Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly, “What’s important to the Speaker is important to ComEd.” That’s what a jury heard Monday as testimony in Madigan’s ...
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Ex-Madigan staffer, former ComEd exec testify at trial of ‘ultimate decision maker’
After prosecutors and Madigan defense attorneys said they had nothing further, the judge told O’Neill he could step down. O’Neill left the box at about 4:05 p.m. Tuesday.
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Key witness testifies ComEd funneled more than $600,000 to Madigan allies to get bills passed
Madigan over several years as a “favor” so Madigan would be “more positively disposed toward ComEd’s legislative agenda.” It’s a crucial piece of testimony in Madigan’s federal ...
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Longtime Madigan staffer spends second day on witness stand in corruption trial
(The Center Square) – One of Michael Madigan’s longtime staffers spent a second day testifying at the former Illinois House Speaker’s bribery and racketeering trial. Will Cousineau spent ...
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Mike Madigan trial updates: Testimony continues in former Illinois House speaker trial
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 ...
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Madigan’s longtime aide takes the stand to testify against 'ultimate decision maker' in the House
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 ...
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'They were being paid as a favor to Mike Madigan': Feds’ star witness takes stand
In a subsequent conversation, McClain informed Marquez that Moody was “someone that was important to Mike Madigan,” Illinois’ longtime House speaker, and that he’d been paying Moody ...
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Madigan corruption trial proceeds with former ComEd exec beginning testimony
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 ...
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‘No one else even knows about it except for our friend’: Testimony in Madigan corruption trial turns to 2018 sex harassment scandal
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 ...
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Madigan trial: Key government witness cross examined for hours Tuesday
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 ...