accused of funneling payments to an ally of Michael Madigan to win the speaker’s support, has declared a mistrial in the case. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman announced his decision ...

accused of funneling payments to an ally of Michael Madigan to win the speaker’s support, has declared a mistrial in the case ...

A judge declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked 11-1 on charges alleging former AT&T Illinois leader Paul La Schiazza bribed former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. The mistrial marks ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan arrives at the Dirksen U.S ... One juror told the Tribune after the mistrial was declared that there seemed to be very little daylight between ...

McClain is accused of shielding the former speaker by acting as an intermediary ... were found guilty of bribing Madigan. And just last month, a mistrial was declared in the case of former ...

Most recently, however, a jury last month deadlocked in the trial of former AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza, who was accused of bribing Madigan via a do-nothing job for the speaker's ...

Madigan was the longest-serving State House Speaker in American history ... a deadlocked jury forced a mistrial in the case of former AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza, who was accused ...

A lawyer for former House Speaker Michael Madigan told jurors at the outset of his corruption trial that the Democratic powerhouse was “completely ignorant” of what people were saying behind ...

CHICAGO — It was a day of déjà vu at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse Tuesday as veteran Statehouse lobbyist Mike McClain sat ...

who was accused of bribing Madigan via a do-nothing job for the speaker's political ally in 2017. Arguments for his acquittal are scheduled for next month. Read more: Jury deadlocks, mistrial ...

On a late October day in Springfield nearly five years ago, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan exited a private caucus meeting and strode up to a group of waiting reporters in one of the ...

But last month, a jury deadlocked in the trial of former AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza, who’d been charged with bribing Madigan in a similar manner as ComEd with a contract for the ...