Page 14 - Daniel Solis News Today

The secret deal that former Ald. Danny Solis (25th) struck more than three years ago with federal prosecutors is now a public document.

The secret deal that former Ald. Danny Solis (25th) struck more than three years ago with federal prosecutors is now a public document.

By Jason Meisner From Chicago Tribune CHICAGO—Former Chicago Ald. Daniel Solis, who turned government mole to help federal ...

Solis secretly recorded now-indicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan and Ald. Ed Burke.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 22 counts alleging that he orchestrated a criminal enterprise for a decade while serving as Illinois’ most powerful politician.

Michael Madigan asked Daniel Solis to help steer insurance business to Madigan’s son during a meeting about the then-alderman’s potential appointment to a lucrative state board position.

A week after he was charged in a bombshell racketeering indictment, Madigan, 79, of Chicago’s Southwest Side, is scheduled to be arraigned in a telephone hearing in U.S. District Court.

The long-awaited racketeering indictment of Michael Madigan runs some 106 pages, but anyone looking for a quote directly from the former House speaker’s mouth will have to wade through more

The long-awaited indictment of Michael Madigan runs some 106 pages, but anyone looking for a quote from the former House speaker will have to wade through more than half the document before finding one.

As part of a corruption probe lasting years, the longtime house speaker is charged with a conspiracy to use his vast power atop Illinois government to enrich himself, his law firm and his vast political patronage army.