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Madigan wielded the speaker’s gavel in Springfield for 36 years. Now he’s bracing to learn his fate June 13, when he’s due to ...
A federal jury convicted Michael Madigan on Feb. 12, 2025, of multiple federal charges including bribery conspiracy — but jurors deadlocked on other charges in the wide-ranging indictment ...
The government on Friday filed its sentencing memorandum, arguing that it is “just and warranted” to sentence Madigan to 12.5 ...
Federal prosecutors argued that, not only was Madigan's decades-long reign as speaker "steeped in corruption," but that he ...
Federal prosecutors are asking for a lengthy 12 ½-year prison sentence for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, ...
A gentleman.” “A rule follower.” “Mr. Integrity.” As the feds seek a prison sentence for the former house speaker, supporters ...
The other shoe is about to drop on former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan as his sentencing date looms.
Chicago-based federal Judge John Blakey is staring at the two faces of convicted felon Michael Madigan, the former and longtime speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. Which one will he find ...
The latest: Closing arguments in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan ... Will the jury decide the prosecution proved Madigan's actions and behaviors were corrupt ...
The 83-year-old longtime politician was convicted in February of conspiring to accept bribes from ComEd over the course of a ...
letting in a now-infamous FBI wiretap where Madigan tells his longtime confidant, Michael McClain, that some ComEd contractors “made out like bandits” for little work; allowing the jury hear ...