WBEZ12d
Ex-ComEd exec testifies Madigan's support was crucial to key bills it sought — but at a price
Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly, “What’s important to the Speaker is important to ComEd.” That’s what a jury heard Monday as testimony in Madigan’s ...
Chicago Sun-Times4d
Key witness testifies ComEd funneled more than $600,000 to Madigan allies to get bills passed
Madigan over several years as a “favor” so Madigan would be “more positively disposed toward ComEd’s legislative agenda.” It’s a crucial piece of testimony in Madigan’s federal ...
Chicago Sun-Times10d
Madigan’s longtime aide takes the stand to testify against 'ultimate decision maker' in the House
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share Michael J. Madigan’s attorneys tried again Tuesday to distance the former Illinois House speaker from a longtime friend and confidant, pressing ComEd’s onetime ...
ABC 7 Chicago3d
Mike Madigan trial updates: Testimony continues in former Illinois House speaker trial
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 ...
Washington Examiner10d
Longtime Madigan staffer spends second day on witness stand in corruption trial
(The Center Square) – One of Michael Madigan’s longtime staffers spent a second day testifying at the former Illinois House Speaker’s bribery and racketeering trial. Will Cousineau spent ...
ABC 7 Chicago6d
Mike Madigan trial updates: Judge denies defense motion to exclude some evidence
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 ...
Crain's Chicago Business4d
'They were being paid as a favor to Mike Madigan': Feds’ star witness takes stand
In a subsequent conversation, McClain informed Marquez that Moody was “someone that was important to Mike Madigan,” Illinois’ longtime House speaker, and that he’d been paying Moody ...
Washington Examiner12d
Prosecutors lay foundation in Madigan corruption trial
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 ...
People9d
Lily James Takes Over from Sylvester Stallone in Vertigo-Inducing First Look at Cliffhanger Reboot
A reboot of Sylvester Stallone’s 1993 thriller ‘Cliffhanger’ will star Lily James and Pierce Brosnan Rocket Science;StudioCanal/Shutterstock Lily James is ...
Yahoo News9d
‘No one else even knows about it except for our friend’: Testimony in Madigan corruption trial turns to 2018 sex harassment scandal
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 ...
WGN-TV11d
Madigan trial: Key government witness cross examined for hours Tuesday
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 ...
WGN-TV12d
Madigan trial resumes with more wiretapped conversations and alleged illegal acts
CHICAGO (WGN) — Prosecutors on Monday unveiled more wiretapped conversations and Mike Madigan’s allegedly unlawful interactions with the ComEd Four as the longtime politician’s corruption ...