Madigan jurors end fifth day of deliberations with no verdict
Jurors in the Michael Madigan trial on Tuesday afternoon closed out their fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
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Jury ends deliberations Monday in Madigan case without reaching a verdict
Jurors in the Michael Madigan trial left the courthouse late Monday afternoon without reaching a verdict, bringing their total deliberation time to more than 21 hours since last week. They...
A disappearing witness, an odd choice of hold music and the Fighting Irish: 5 strange things you might not know about the Madigan trial
With allegations of corruption at the highest levels of state government, the racketeering trial of former Democratic House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and his longtime confidant, ex-lobbyist Michael McClain, is...
Madigan jury ends third day of deliberations without verdict
The Michael Madigan jury has ended its third day of deliberations without a verdict in Illinois' highest-stakes public corruption trial in years.
Madigan jury, flush with office supplies, finishes first full day of deliberations without reaching verdict
The jurors in the landmark racketeering trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan and his longtime confidant deliberated for their first full day Thursday without reaching a verdict — though...
Landmark corruption case against ex-Speaker Michael Madigan is in jury’s hands
Nearly four months after they were first called to Chicago's federal courthouse, jurors have begun deliberating in the most consequential Illinois public corruption case in years: the racketeering case of...
Friend, confidant and lobbyist ‘thought he was doing his job,’ not bribing Madigan, lawyer argues
Michael McClain, a longtime confidant of ex-Speaker Michael Madigan, was a smart and diligent lobbyist who never agreed to or knew about any bribery scheme, his attorney told jurors Tuesday...
Madigan a man, not a myth, defense argues, while calling key witness the ‘malignant tumor’ at the heart of the corruption case
An attorney for Michael Madigan on Monday ripped former Ald. Daniel Solis' turn as an FBI mole.
‘The government depends on your cynicism’: Defense in Madigan trial tells jurors of ‘Mike’s’ innocence
Attorneys for Michael Madigan opened their final bid to persuade jurors of his innocence by hearkening back to a memorable nickname for the former speaker: the Sphinx.
The ‘Make Michael Madigan Money Plan’ was powerful speaker’s focus, feds argue in waning days of corruption trial
Daniel Solis held a huge red flag in front of Madigan, prosecutors said, when in a wiretapped call Solis uttered the phrase “quid pro quo.”