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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.