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The feds’ bid to put the former head of the state’s largest utility behind bars comes a week after they asked for a sentence ...
With Madigan required to serve at least 85% of his sentence, he will be around 90 years old before he's eligible for release.
Prosecutors this week asked a federal judge to hand Anne Pramaggiore a 70-month prison sentence along with a fine of $1.75 ...
Former Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan sentenced to 7 1/2 years and fined $2.5 million for corruption in a landmark ...
John Hooker is the first of four former ComEd officials set to be sentenced in the coming weeks. Prosecutors say he, like ...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan minced no words on the day Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, his longtime political nemesis, was arrested on federal corruption charges in December 2008.
Feds say Michael Madigan should get 12½ years in prison Madigan wielded the speaker’s gavel in Springfield for 36 years. Now he’s bracing to learn his fate June 13, when he’s due to be ...
Regardless of the outcome, Michael Madigan's federal trial has offered a fly-on-the-wall opportunity to see how the levers of power are pulled in private.
Michael Madigan's 12 jurors are chosen and openings are on the horizon — but what took so long? Madigan has played a prominent and polarizing role in Illinois politics for decades.
Without Michael Madigan, she said, “I would probably have to find care.” “He loves me,” Shirley Madigan said of the once-powerful Southwest Side Democrat. “Not only does he love me, but ...
Once the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, Michael Madigan took the stand Tuesday at his own corruption trial, a shocking move for a man once considered the most powerful ...
Former Speaker Michael Madigan said Sunday he hasn’t made a decision on how long he will continue as state Democratic Party chairman as he installed a 26-year-old constituent services worker as ...