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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday began playing the audio of Tim Mapes’ 2021 testimony before a federal grand jury in which he allegedly lied to protect his longtime boss, the once powerful Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan. The playing of Mapes’ testimony is offering a rare public glimpse into normally secret grand jury proceedings, not only lifting the veil on some of the ways ...

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday began playing the audio of Tim Mapes’ 2021 testimony before a federal grand jury in which he allegedly lied to protect his longtime boss, the once powerful Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan. The playing of Mapes’ testimony is offering a rare public glimpse into normally secret grand jury proceedings, not only lifting the veil on some of the ways ...

The jury in the Tim Mapes trial has seen emails between Mike Madigan confidants.

In his heyday, Tim Mapes, diminutive but domineering, was feared in Springfield. He threatened staffers’ jobs and screamed orders on the House floor in his capacity as powerhouse Democrat Michael Madigan’s trusted lieutenant. Formal investigations all but called Mapes’ conduct dictatorial. But you’d never guess that by looking at Mapes last week, sitting meekly and respectfully between his two ...

In the opening statement to jurors Wednesday, a federal prosecutor ripped into Tim Mapes, ousted chief of staff of former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan, calling him a deliberate liar who misled a grand jury to “protect the boss.” The Mapes defense team countered that the former insider, long at the center of power in Springfield, simply could not remember the details about key ...