Madigan trial highlights lobbying, real estate dealings, and testimony contradicting bribery and extortion allegations.bri ...

Jurors are off until next year at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and ...

Defense lawyers for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called their first witness in his federal corruption trial.

Co-defendant Mike McClain's attorneys rested their case Thursday. Madigan's attorney called Andrew Cretal to the witness ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's defense attorneys began presenting their case Thursday at the Dirksen Federal ...

A real estate developer at the center of an alleged attempted extortion scheme by ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan testified ...

Judge John Blakey sent jurors home Thursday until Jan. 2, giving them their longest break since Michael Madigan's trial began ...

Day 40 of the federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain on ...

A real estate developer at the center of an alleged attempted extortion scheme by ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan testified ...

Acevedo's testimony was further impeached by FBI agent Kyle Scherrer, who was present during an interview with Acevedo in 2019. Scherrer said Acevedo told prosecutors he never did, nor was assigned ...

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman set a June 2025 trial date for Paul La Schiazza, a week after shooting down a long-shot ...

Officials at AT&T Illinois felt so much pressure to hire consultants friendly to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan that they ...