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“I understand we have a lot of people walking around trying to find things to complain about,” Madigan is heard saying. “Every once in a while, the speaker gets to do what he wants to do.”
A close, longtime staffer for former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan took the stand in the ComEd bribery trial Thursday, testifying under immunity...
ComEd’s former general counsel said he was told to sign the law firm of political operative Victor Reyes to an unusual three-year contract guaranteeing Reyes’ firm 850 hours of legal work a year.
For the first time Thursday, jurors in the bribery trial of Michael McClain and three other political power players heard Madigan’s voice on secret recordings.
A defense attorney for one of the four allies of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan who are trial countered that the case is marked by “overzealousness” and lacks hard evidence to back up the allegations.