The ruling comes less than a week before Madigan is set to face trial in federal court in Chicago.
CHICAGO -- A federal judge has rejected former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's motion to dismiss most of the criminal charges against him, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the scope of federal bribery laws.U.S. District Judge John Blakey also denied a request from Madigan's co-defendant and longtime confidant, Michael McClain, to be tried separately from the former speaker.
''The Supreme Court clearly and definitively held that the statute applies only to bribes, not gratuities, and that bribery 'requires that the official have a corrupt state of mind and accept the payment intending to be influenced in the official act,'' Madigan's attorneys wrote. 'In other words, the government must establish a quid pro quo.
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