Chicago Tribune6d
Madigan jury, flush with office supplies, finishes first full day of deliberations without reaching verdict
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Chicago Tribune7d
Landmark corruption case against ex-Speaker Michael Madigan is in jury’s hands
Jurors will have to consider 23 counts against Madigan alleging an array of schemes to enrich his political allies and line his pockets. McClain is charged in six of those counts. To assist their ...
Daily Herald5d
Michael Madigan's fate now rests with jury
It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while others in the state’s political realm were merely playing checkers ...
Washington Examiner6d
Madigan case: Jury to decide fate of alleged ‘Grand Masters of Corruption’
(The Center Square) – Jurors started deliberating at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago. Judge John Robert Blakey handed the case to the jury ...
Chicago Sun-Times6d
Jurors begin deliberating after prosecutor argues Madigan 'lost his way, he was blinded by profit'
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share When Michael J. Madigan’s longtime friend penned a retirement letter in 2016, he compared the record-breaking Illinois House speaker to Chicago’s famous ...
Washington Examiner8d
Madigan attorney calls indictment ‘a worthless piece of paper’
Madigan served in the Illinois House from 1971 to 2021 and was speaker for all but two years between 1983 and 2021. He chaired the Democratic Party of Illinois for 23 years.
ABC 7 Chicago4d
Mike Madigan trial live updates: Jury enters 3rd day of deliberations in corruption trial
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The jury resumed deliberations on Friday in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal bribery and racketeering trial. The jury started deliberating 14-and-a-half ...
The Pantagraph3d
Madigan defense attempts to chip away at bribery allegations as closing arguments continue
An attorney for Michael Madigan on Monday repeatedly denied that the ex-House speaker ever thought utility giant ComEd was bribing him, and painted co-defendant Michael McClain as an exaggerator ...
Chicago Sun-Times8d
Madigan's attorneys end case by blasting FBI mole Solis as ‘stage actor,’ ‘massive tax cheat,’ — and ‘malignant tumor’
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file Share Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan will soon learn whether a jury believes he’s guilty of a sweeping racketeering conspiracy, but for a moment ...
The Pantagraph7d
Madigan ‘was not confused’ taking part in alleged bribery scheme, prosecutor says with jury on verge of deliberating
Early in their final pitch to jurors on Wednesday, prosecutors displayed a screenshot from an undercover video: Michael Madigan, then the powerful speaker of the Illinois House, leaning forward ...