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Jurors delivered sweeping guilty verdicts against Commonwealth Edison's former top executive and three of its former lobbyists Tuesday on charges they bribed ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, drawing a decisive line between building goodwill with elected officials and corruptly influencing them as prosecutors prepare for Madigan's racketeering trial next year, white collar experts say.
An Illinois federal judge didn't mince words when he discovered Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym Ltd. attorneys amended a trademark infringement suit before his court to drop hundreds of online retailer defendants and filed a new complaint to secure a more favorable restraining order bond ruling with a different judge, warning of "some pretty serious professional consequences" if it happened again.
Chicago federal jurors convicted Commonwealth Edison's former CEO and three of its former lobbyists Tuesday of conspiring to bribe ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, a verdict that capped a high-profile trial packed with more than 100 secretly recorded conversations and insights into the legislative kingmaker's political operation.
Judges and court staff in Illinois' Circuit Court of Cook County have been ordered to return to mostly in-person work starting on May 14, with a more-permanent phase-out of remote work in June, as the court has opted to end the emergency measures it put in place to combat the spread of COVID-19.
An Illinois appellate panel has reversed an $800,000 jury award and ordered a new trial for a disabled woman who suffered shoulder injuries and required physical therapy after a car hit her, saying she'd conceded the lower court shouldn't have barred certain expert impeachment evidence at trial.