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The conviction of former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff on perjury charges last week exposed more than just the extraordinary set of lies that Tim Mapes

(The Center Square) – After the most recent conviction in what federal prosecutors called the “Madigan Enterprise,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said more can and should be done on ethics reforms. Last week, former House Speaker ...

The conviction of former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff on perjury charges last week exposed more than just the extraordinary set of lies that Tim Mapes told to try to protect his boss. The nearly three-week trial at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse also ripped a deeper tear in the veil covering the secretive Madigan political machine that prosecutors have called ...

The Tim Mapes trial will continue Tuesday, after prosecutors wrapped up their case. He was a confidant of Mike Madigan, Illinois House speaker.

Anybody who thought the perjury trial of Democratic insider Tim Mapes would be a dull examination of his seven alleged lies before a federal grand jury was in for a big surprise. Instead, the ongoing case against Mapes has turned into an autopsy of how the record reign of his former boss, Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan, began to fall apart. It’s a story that has many layers of ...

CHICAGO — Tim Mapes was just minutes into his grand jury testimony in Chicago’s federal courthouse two years ago when a prosecutor warned that even though Mapes had been granted

CHICAGO — Tim Mapes was just minutes into his grand jury testimony in Chicago’s federal courthouse two years ago when a prosecutor warned that even though Mapes had been granted immunity, he could still be prosecuted for lying. “You understand you are under oath and you are obligated to tell the truth,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu said near the beginning of the March 31, 2021, ...

The federal perjury charges against Tim Mapes, former chief of staff to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan, may be relatively simple, but the political intrigue surrounding his trial has so far been multi-layered. That theater is expected to continue Wednesday with the testimony of former state Rep. Lou Lang, who was forced to resign at Madigan’s behest in 2018 after sexual harassment ...

Tim Mapes was the man in the middle, the aircraft carrier, the human eraser, the indomitable "no" man.