Karen Conti, Partner at Conti & Dolan LLC, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the Madigan corruption trial, and highlight the fact that there is a difference between what is “immoral” and what is actually ...

popping into a quiet corner to make a phone call or ducking into an empty committee room to send emails. Some veteran lobbyists have longstanding arrangements with lawmakers who allow them to hang ...

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 ... you in the room,” McClain ...

Jurors in Michael Madigan’s corruption trial on Monday heard a key wiretapped phone call in which the speaker’s longtime confidant told him about a plan to kick payments to a loyal ward aide ...

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 ...

He also testified in two other trials in 2023. But this is the first time he’s taken the witness stand with Madigan in the room. He told jurors Madigan was the “ultimate decision maker” in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share The federal judge presiding over the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan agreed to toss a small — but potentially key — piece of ...

For each vote on the various bills, prosecutors recorded the bill number, the date, and whether Madigan supported it. O’Neill said that in 2011, ComEd lobbyists worked to pass the Energy ...

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 ...

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 ...