In return, ComEd offered kickbacks, jobs and contracts to Madigan loyalists. Also standing trial with Madigan is longtime confidant MichaelMcClain, 76, who already has been found guilty in a ...
The ex-speaker also crossed paths with his onetime friend, Michael McClain. The relationship between the pair has been examined in multiple corruption trials in Chicago. Now they’re finally on trial ...
Still, Hampton’s testimony is expected to lend context to wiretapped recordings the jury will hear later in the trial where Madigan’s longtime confidant and co-defendant, MichaelMcClain ...
The trial, which is scheduled to last through mid-December, is the culmination of more than a decade of digging by the FBI and prosecutors, and it's the final in a series of related cases that have ...