Michael Madigan

Republican lobbyist testifies about ‘crazy parking lot disaster’ at heart of Michael Madigan corruption trial

At the end of the three-page list, Madigan’s former chief of staff Jessica Basham noted that 43 of the 91 recommendations had been taken up by the Pritzker administration

Danny Solis’ extraordinary cooperation deal will see the single bribery charge that was eventually pressed against him in 2022 dropped so long as prosecutors are satisfied with the truthfulness of his testimony in the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan

For the second time in the span of seven months, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called up Chicago Ald. Danny Solis after reading about a proposed real estate development in the alderman’s ward.

Then-Chicago Ald. Danny Solis had already been cooperating with the FBI for a little more than a year in June 2017 when he received an unexpected voicemail from powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Ed Moody testified that despite doing little to no work to earn the money, he spent nearly seven years collecting $4,500 each month, paid indirectly from electric utility Commonwealth Edison through a series of ComEd lobbyists connected to Michael Madigan

The jury got the full picture of how Mike McClain viewed his “assignments” from Michael Madigan, with whom he’d been friends since the 1970s

While attorneys for the former speaker used cross-examination of Marquez to try to distance Madigan from McClain, the jury heard more intercepted phone calls aimed at undercutting that narrative

The ComEd exec-turned-FBI mole spent a fifth day on the witness stand Wednesday in Michael Madigan’s bribery and racketeering trial

Prosecutors have interpreted Madigan and McClain’s job recommendations as repeated solicitations of bribes from ComEd, alleging that in exchange, the powerful speaker helped push the utility’s preferred legislation in Springfield

The FBI wasted no time giving Fidel Marquez his first assignment after the chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison agreed to become a government mole in January 2019

Prosecutors play more wiretapped calls focused on scheme to help ex-staffer

Tuesday was the third time since last spring that Drury took the witness stand to answer a similar set of questions related to Madigan

Four years after Speaker Michael Madigan's stunning political fall, he will spend the next two months in a Chicago federal courtroom watching as his long-awaited corruption trial unfolds to determine whether he picks up another moniker: convicted felon.

Jury selection will begin next week in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, whose half-century career and status as Illinois’ most powerful politician ended nearly four years ago as the feds circled ever-closer to his inner circle

Paul La Schiazza is accused of bribing former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan – a politician he described as “all-powerful” and “King Madigan” in email snippets shown to the jury

Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the trial of former AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza, who federal prosecutors allege bribed once-powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in exchange for favorable legislation in Springfield

Illinois Republicans say they are still as united about the upcoming election as they were at their national convention in Milwaukee last month, despite surge of enthusiasm for the Democrats’ new presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Attorneys on both sides of the federal corruption case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan didn’t agree on much this past month, but they are aligned on one thing: they’re prepared to go to trial on Oct. 8 in Chicago

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday narrowed the scope of a federal bribery law prosecutors have relied on in their cases against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and several of his allies convicted of bribing him

As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Illinois appears likely to join most of the rest of the country in requiring that the state’s Electoral College votes go to the winner of the state’s popular election.

A federal judge in Puerto Rico last week told a politically connected former state contractor that if he wants to sue for defamation against the people who’ve accused him of defrauding the state of Illinois, he’ll have to do so in an Illinois courtroom.

A Republican proposal that would give citizens the ability to propose ethics-related constitutional amendments on the ballot received a bipartisan boost Tuesday when former Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn endorsed it.

After suddenly pleading guilty as his federal corruption trial was wrapping up this week, former state Sen. Sam McCann won’t be released to await sentencing, U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless ruled Friday.

Illinoisans pay tens of millions of dollars each year to utilities to cover costs they accrue for lawyers, belonging to trade groups, making charitable contributions and purchasing advertisements meant to boost utilities’ public image.

A federal judge in Chicago sentenced a former chief of staff to longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to two and a half years in prison Monday for lying under oath to a grand jury to protect his once-powerful boss.

The trial is now scheduled for several months after the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on the case of a northwest Indiana mayor convicted under the same federal bribery statutes at play in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s case

Deliberations began in obstruction of justice and perjury trial of Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff to then-Speaker Michael Madigan.

Attorneys for Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff for then-Speaker Michael Madigan, hired an expert witness in learning and memory, who told the jury factors like stress or busyness can negatively affect a person’s ability to encode and store memories.

Rich Miller: Not one of the lies former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s former chief of staff is accused of telling a grand jury while under a grant of immunity was about illegal activity.

Tim Mapes, former chief of staff to then-Speaker Michael Madigan, told a grand jury he didn't know whether Mike McClain was in contact with a particular legislator, but wiretapped calls show the legislator was a frequent topic of conversation between the two.

Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff to then-Speaker Michael Madigan, was warned three separate times during his grand jury testimony that the immunity order he was under meant that he could be charged with perjury if he wasn’t truthful.

As the trial of Tim Mapes, former chief of staff of then-Speaker Michael Madigan, continues, the jury learned how lobbyist Mike McClain struggled to go "cold turkey" on phone calls after FBI raid on his home.

Michael Madigan never had a cell phone or email address of his own while speaker of the Illinois House. Madigan, now 81, instead relied on his “tight inner circle” to communicate on his behalf, an ex-FBI agent testified.

“I always try to protect him," a federal prosecutor said her opening statements, quoting Tim Mapes, Michael Madigan's ex-chief of staff who was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with a bribery case involving ComEd.

Michael Madigan's former chief of staff is accused of lying to a grand jury despite being under an immunity order. He has maintained his innocence, and on Monday jury selection begins in his federal trial in Chicago.

Northern Illinois lawmakers called for changes to Illinois’ political system following the conviction of three ex-lobbyists and the former Commonwealth Edison CEO in federal court this week.

A federal jury on Tuesday convicted three ex-lobbyists and the former CEO of electric utility Commonwealth Edison for their involvement in an alleged bribery scheme aimed at longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

“Use your common sense,” U.S. Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu said while wrapping up the government’s final rebuttal in the trial’s closing arguments.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s name has been invoked countless times throughout the trial as the subject of ComEd’s alleged 7½-year bribery scheme.

After nearly six weeks, a federal jury has heard almost all the evidence in the bribery trial of three ex-lobbyists for electric utility Commonwealth Edison and its former CEO who are accused of bribing former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore to take rare – and risky – step of defending herself to jury.

Political worker had contract passed around between multiple ComEd lobbyists.

Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, along with three ComEd ex-lobbyists, stands accused of orchestrating a years-long bribery scheme to influence former House Speaker Michael Madigan with jobs and contracts for his allies in exchange for help with the utility’s legislative agenda.

Madigan confidant Mike McClain “had pretty free access” to the offices in Madigan’s suite on the third floor of the state Capitol building in Springfield, according to testimony of Commonwealth Edison's former top attorney.

Jurors in the ComEd bribery case heard 16 more recordings from Mike McClain’s wiretapped phone in 2018 and 2019, along with testimony from one of the FBI agents charged with investigating Madigan as far back as 2014.

Government lawyers played several recordings of calls from Mike McClain’s cell phone that they had wiretapped in 2018 and 2019. They included a call where his directives from former House Speaker Michael Madigan were confirmed by the Democratic leader himself.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan isn’t set to go on trial for racketeering and corruption charges until next summer, but his decades of power in Illinois government and politics loomed large Wednesday as opening arguments got underway in a related case.

Jury selection has begun at a federal trial in Chicago that could offer an inside look at pay-to-play politics in Illinois that prosecutors say involved the state’s largest electric utility and one of the state’s most powerful politicians at the time.

The anniversary comes roughly two years after Michael Madigan’s fellow Democrats forced him to cede the title of longest-serving speaker of any legislature in U.S. history.