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‘The Story Isn’t True’: Attorney for Madigan Co-Defendant Rejects Bribery Allegations in Closing Arguments
Of the 23 total charges in the indictment, Michael McClain faces six counts including racketeering conspiracy, federal ...
Madigan attorney calls indictment ‘a worthless piece of paper’
Closing arguments by defense attorneys are expected to finish Tuesday at the corruption trial of former Illinois House ...
Journal Gazette and Times Courier4d
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 ...
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A Jury Will Now Decide Michael Madigan’s Fate. Here’s a Breakdown of the Landmark Corruption Case
Michael Madigan’s defense team rested Thursday, nearly three months after opening statements and testimony began in the ...
Illinois Policy1d
Madigan collects $158K while facing federal corruption trial in Chicago
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan collected a pension worth $158,000 in 2024 while facing a federal corruption ...
Madigan case: Jury to decide fate of alleged ‘Grand Masters of Corruption’
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 shortly after 3 p.m.
Prosecutor says ex-speaker should’ve heeded ‘wrong way’ signs, but instead pursued profit
including alleged bribery schemes involving electric utility Commonwealth Edison and telecom giant AT&T Illinois. Both ...
Madigan's attorney makes his case to the jury: 'The government sees the myth. They do not see the man.”
It's the final presentation from Madigan’s attorneys before jurors begin to deliberate the sweeping racketeering conspiracy ...
Courthouse News Service6d
Defense closing arguments begin in Mike Madigan federal corruption trial
Madigan's defense attorney Dan Collins, when he began his own closing arguments Friday afternoon, rebutted that the ...
The Pantagraph2d
‘The government depends on your cynicism’: Defense in Madigan trial begins closing arguments
Collins called Solis that “small little crack in your windshield that ... accuses Madigan and McClain of bribery schemes involving ComEd and AT&T Illinois. The trial, which began Oct. 8 and ...
Madigan attorney calls ex-Ald. Solis the ‘malignant tumor’ at the heart of the landmark corruption case
An attorney for Michael Madigan on Monday ripped former Ald. Daniel Solis’ turn as an FBI mole, calling the onetime influential Zoning Committee chairman a master manipulator and the “malignant tumor ...