Mike Madigan trial live updates: McClain's defense wraps up closing arguments
Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's defense team began their final presentation to the jury just after lunch Friday, ...
Defense wraps up closing arguments in Madigan trial; prosecutors to rebuttal
Madigan and his now former friend and political fixer, 77-year-old Michael McClain, each face a 23-count criminal indictment.
Friendship between Madigan and McClain became 'a casualty' of corruption case, lawyer says. 'But it was real'
Defense attorney Patrick Cotter made the comment in the midst of his nearly five-hour closing argument Tuesday in the corruption trial of Michael Madigan and Michael McClain. Jurors are expected to ...
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Mike Madigan trial: Defense wraps closing arguments, government to rebuttal on Wednesday
The defense maintained that while lobbying and politics might seem unappealing, they are not inherently illegal.
McClain's defense continues closing arguments in former IL Speaker Mike Madigan corruption trial
Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's co-defendant Michael McClain's defense gave closing arguments Tuesday. The jury began hearing defense attorney Patrick Cotter's closing arguments on ...
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Evidence in corruption case just ‘lobbying and politics,’ attorney for Madigan confidant argues
What the evidence of this trial did show is lobbying and politics...,” McClain attorney Patrick Cotter said in his closing ...
Daywatch: What to know about the ICE raids
The immigration blitz was action long promised by President Donald Trump who made mass deportation central to his campaign. Trump’s border czar Tom Homan designated Chicago — the nation’s ...
Madigan's attorneys end case by blasting FBI mole Solis as ‘stage actor,’ ‘massive tax cheat,’ — and ‘malignant tumor’
Michael Madigan's attorney concluded his seven-and-a-half-hour closing argument Monday, meaning Madigan’s trial is nearing ...
Madigan's attorney makes his case to the jury: 'The government sees the myth. They do not see the man.”
It's the final presentation from Madigan’s attorneys before jurors begin to deliberate the sweeping racketeering conspiracy ...
CPS grads face 'disability cliff'
The fall: “It is very much being pushed off of a cliff without any resources,” says Josh Long, chief of the CPS Office for ...
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Feds wrap argument against Madigan: 'The corrupt way was the way it was'
To convict Michael Madigan of a racketeering conspiracy, jurors will need to find that Madigan or his close ally agreed that ...
A Chicago perspective on birthright citizenship
Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Among the slew of executive orders President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office Monday was an effort to end future birthright citizenship for ...