Patrick Cotter, defense attorney for a longtime Madigan ally, spent more than three hours cross-examining former ComEd ...

(The Center Square) – Defense attorneys have begun cross-examining a convicted former ComEd executive at the bribery and ...

After Madigan was voted in as speaker that year, he gave almost every House Democrat an engraved clock that read: “The Honorable Michael J. Madigan. Longest-serving Speaker of a state House of ...

The Democratic Party of Illinois and political committees controlled by then-Speaker Madigan paid $275,000 to settle the lawsuit. The committees included Friends of Michael J. Madigan and the 13th ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share Finding a jury to hear the case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan took as long as some trials do from start to finish. After seven days and ...

But one of the biggest political racketeering cases in the city’s history — USA v. Michael J. Madigan — actually did land randomly at the bench of a judge nicknamed the “Son of RICO.” ...

ComEd once found its fate tied so crucially to the Illinois Legislature dominated by Michael J. Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly, “What’s important to the Speaker ...

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 ...

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 ...

University President William P. Leahy, S.J., will host the annual Recognition Reception and Dinner for retiring Boston College faculty and staff on June 1. Because the COVID-19 pandemic forced the ...