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The feds’ bid to put the former head of the state’s largest utility behind bars comes a week after they asked for a sentence ...
With Madigan required to serve at least 85% of his sentence, he will be around 90 years old before he's eligible for release.
Former Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan sentenced to 7 1/2 years and fined $2.5 million for corruption in a landmark ...
Prosecutors this week asked a federal judge to hand Anne Pramaggiore a 70-month prison sentence along with a fine of $1.75 ...
Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until 2021, with the exception of two years. Along the way, he developed a ...
Once the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, Michael Madigan took the stand Tuesday at his own corruption trial, a shocking move for a man once considered the most powerful ...
“Michael Madigan is not corrupt. He never exchanged his duty to serve his constituents for private benefit — the essence of corruption,” the filing stated.
House Speaker Michael Madigan and his wife, Shirley, join supporters as their daughter Lisa Madigan kicks off her campaign for state attorney general Dec. 2, 2001. Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune ...
Feds say Michael Madigan should get 12½ years in prison Madigan wielded the speaker’s gavel in Springfield for 36 years. Now he’s bracing to learn his fate June 13, when he’s due to be ...
Without Michael Madigan, she said, “I would probably have to find care.” “He loves me,” Shirley Madigan said of the once-powerful Southwest Side Democrat. “Not only does he love me, but ...
Regardless of the outcome, Michael Madigan's federal trial has offered a fly-on-the-wall opportunity to see how the levers of power are pulled in private.
When Michael McClain retired from lobbying in 2015, he told then-House Speaker Madigan he was "at the bridge with my musket standing with and for the Madigan family." McClain's fealty to Madigan ...