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'Corruption toll': 'ComEd 4' found guilty in Illinois bribery trial
Rockford Register Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCHICAGO (AP) — Federal jurors on Tuesday convicted all four defendants of bribery conspiracy at...
US District Judge James Zagel, ‘Renaissance man’ who presided over some of Chicago’s biggest trials,...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLongtime U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel, the former leader of the Illinois State Police who...
Politically connected businessman convicted of attempting to bribe legislators in a brief trial that...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 12 months agoIn the annals of Chicago public corruption prosecutions, the federal bribery case against...
Ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s racketeering trial postponed 6 months pending Supreme...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoCHICAGO — Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s landmark racketeering trial was postponed...
With Supreme Court to weigh in on federal bribery statute, ripples felt quickly in Chicago...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoA decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a Chicago-area bribery case has already reverberated...
Tim Mapes, former aide to Speaker Michael Madigan, sentenced to 2 1/2 years for lying to federal...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDuring Tim Mapes’ perjury trial last year, an FBI agent memorably testified Mapes’ boss, longtime...
Judges, ex-legislators and the Cook County clerk wrote letters of support for convicted Springfield...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA sitting state appellate judge, a former Illinois Supreme Court justice, multiple ex-legislators...
Ex-cop Lane will report to Colorado prison in Floyd killing
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFormer Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George...
Ex-Madigan aide Tim Mapes found guilty but he’s still collecting a big pension
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoDespite a federal jury last week convicting Tim Mapes of two felonies, the former chief of staff for...
‘ComEd Four’ jury ends a third day of deliberations and will return Monday
Chicago Tribune· 1 year agoA federal jury deliberated for a third day Thursday without reaching a verdict in the “ComEd Four” trial alleging a group of executives and lobbyists conspired to bribe then-House Speaker Michael ...