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Ex-Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan’s state pension suspended following conviction
He had served a nationwide record 36 years as speaker but a group of 19 House Democrats ... The same federal jury that convicted Madigan deadlocked on six charges against McClain, a former ComEd ...
Inside the Madigan jury room: 'Pronouncing someone guilty didn’t make me feel good'
"I went to the same high school as he did and I’ve always heard of him to be a good person,” jury foreman Timothy Nessner ...
Once a political giant, Madigan now a convicted felon and likely prison inmate — but not a racketeer
The verdict capped an unpredictable four-month trial that gave jurors an up-front and uncensored look at the practice of behind-the-scenes politics in Chicago and Illinois in the previous decade.
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UPDATED: Madigan guilty of bribery as split verdict punctuates ex-speaker’s fall
Mike McClain, a longtime Springfield lobbyist and confidant to ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan, exits the Dirksen Federal ...
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Political powerhouse Madigan guilty of bribery conspiracy as jury returns partial verdict
Jurors have convicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan on 10 federal corruption counts and acquitted him of seven.
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Former Illinois Speaker Madigan Found Guilty of Corruption
Mike Madigan, a former state Democratic Party chair, had been the longest-serving chamber leader in U.S. history. A jury has ...
‘People really stood their ground,’ juror says of split ex-Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan verdict
A federal jury Wednesday rendered a split decision in the wide-ranging indictment against former House Speaker Michael ...
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Prosecutors say Brandon Russell was the leader of a neo-Nazi group who orchestrated a plot to knock out power to the city of Baltimore to sow social chaos.