After 30 days of testimony over three months, prosecutors rested their case in chief Wednesday in the blockbuster public corruption trial of Michael Madigan, formerly the immensely powerful speaker of the Illinois House and leader of the state Democratic Party.
Former state Rep. Edward Acevedo’s second day of testimony in the Michael Madigan corruption trial got testy Tuesday from the moment a prosecutor said “Good morning.”
A former top aide to ex-Speaker Michael Madigan continued his testimony as a government witness against his old boss.
Unless Michael Madigan shocks the Illinois political world and testifies at his own federal corruption trial, the only thing the jury will have heard from him when it soon comes time to decide his fate is what’s on federal tape.
Three months after his trial ended in a hung jury, ex-AT&T Illinois boss Paul La Schiazza’s bid for acquittal was denied Thursday by a federal judge, who ruled that prosecutors had shown ample evidence of a quid pro quo scheme to bribe then-House Speaker Michael Madigan.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that former Illinois state Rep. Edward Acevedo may be compelled to testify in the corruption trial of ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan.
“Sphinx” was the moniker applied to Madigan by some members of JB Pritzker’s team after Pritzker’s election in 2018, according to testimony from U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski, who was a top Pritzker aide before her election to Congress in 2022.
Lobbyist Nancy Kimme’s testimony paints a detailed picture of the political mechanizations, power plays, and bruised egos that unfolded in 2018 over Chinatown land deal.
Then-powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan was intimately involved in the process of recommending people to sit on state board and commissions and kept a running list that eventually totaled 91 names after JB Pritzker won the election for governor in 2018.
Federal prosecutors in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan will get the chance Tuesday to ask ex-Ald. Daniel Solis about his cooperation against another “high-ranking official.”