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 ...
Seven years ago almost to the day, Alaina Hampton sent a private letter to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan about sexual harassment from a co-worker that became a turning point in Madigan’s ...
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 ...
(The Center Square) – One of Michael Madigan’s longtime staffers spent ... had become a “Swiss Army knife” of a witness. Pugh argued that Hampton should not be allowed to testify about ...
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 ...
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 (WLS) -- Thursday began in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial with a motion to exclude some evidence. Defense attorneys filed a motion to exclude any ...
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 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 — On the eve of his retirement announcement in late 2016, longtime Statehouse lobbyist Mike McClain wrote letters to longtime colleagues, expressing his appreciation for them.
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 ...
Ex-ComEd exec testifies on no-work contracts for Madigan allies in bribery case; jury hears recordings detailing the scheme.