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Lawyers for AT&T Illinois ex-president are seeking to bar key evidence in his bribery trial, arguing that prosecutors have not identified a conspiracy to “corruptly” influence then-House Speaker Michael Madigan.

General Assembly grants five-year extension to law that smoothed the way for small cell transmission equipment to be placed throughout Illinois.

Lawyers for the ex-president of AT&T Illinois are seeking to bar key evidence in his upcoming bribery trial, arguing in a filing that prosecutors have failed to identify any conspiracy to "corruptly" influence then-House Speaker Michael Madigan.

University of Illinois basketball player Terrence Shannon Jr. isn’t the only one who wants to play ball. So do Florida brothers Matt and Ryan Bewley.

Federal prosecutors originally charged Darion Lindsey in February 2021 with Denzal Stewart and Lamar Taylor. Stewart and Taylor pleaded guilty to an arson conspiracy and civil disorder, and Lindsey joined them in doing so Thursday.

Olalekan Jacob Ponle, popularly known as Mr. Woodberry, has asked the United States Court of Appeals to reduce his eight-year jail term because the sentence was “wrongly calculated”.   SaharaReporters reported on April 13, 2023 that Mr Woodberry, an internet fraudster and an ally of the convicted internet fraud kingpin, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, has pleaded guilty to count one of the eight counts brought against him in the US.  

A social media post has claimed that Olalekan Ponle, better known as Woodberry, has been released from prison.

“The Shark” has been beached. Two months after being accused of badmouthing a former drug client on social media for turning government informant, longtime Chicago defense attorney Joseph “The Shark” Lopez was suspended from practicing in federal court for six months and fined $5,000. In her three-page ruling, U.S. District Chief Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer wrote that Lopez violated several rules ...

A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that a felon did not lose his Second Amendment right to own a firearm, even after he had been convicted of multiple gun-related crimes.The astonishing ruling stems from an alleged robbery in Chicago in September 2021. At the time, Glen Price supposedly robbed th...

A Chicago judge ruled in a federal case that the statute barring felons from possession handguns is unconstitutional per the Bruen decision by SCOTUS.