Jury selection will begin this week in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Jury selection will begin this week in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan , whose half-century career and status as Illinois' most powerful politician ended nearly four years ago as the feds circled ever-closer to his inner circle.
Some of those political allies who got contracts at ComEd and telecommunications giant AT&T Illinois have faced tax evasion charges and are either serving or have already completed prison sentences.was convicted on two counts of perjury and attempted obstruction of justice for lying to a grand jury investigating Madigan and his inner circle.who was accused of bribing Madigan via a do-nothing job for the speaker's political ally in 2017.
In response to the ruling, Madigan's lawyers asked U.S. District Judge John Blakey to dismiss some of the bribery charges in the case, claiming prosecutors failed to allege a "quid pro quo" occurred between the former speaker and entities like ComEd and AT&T. Blakey this summer made a series of pretrial decisions for the Madigan case, which will be one of the most high-profile political corruption cases this century, along with last year's trial of Chicago Ald. Ed Burke and former Govs. Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan.
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