Dave McKinney

2 weeks ago | wbez.org | Jon Seidel |Dave McKinney |David Struett

Five months ago, the man long known to Illinois as “Mr. Speaker” made the stunning decision to climb onto the witness stand, swear an oath and tell his side of the story. But along the way, Michael J. Madigan denied his famous friendship with the fixer known as Michael McClain. He denied a promise he made to the once-powerful Ald. Danny Solis. And he denied his role in a bribery scheme in which Illinois’ largest utility tried to buy his favor.

2 weeks ago | nprillinois.org | Dave McKinney |Jon Seidel

If anyone knows how former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan is feeling these days, it might be Rod Blagojevich. Illinois’ former governor faced sentencing twice. Both times, a federal judge walloped him with a 14-year prison term that still stands as one of the harshest corruption sentences handed down at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Now Blagojevich is a free man — commuted and pardoned by President Donald Trump.

3 weeks ago | wbez.org | Dave McKinney |Jon Seidel

If anyone knows how former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan is feeling these days, it might be Rod Blagojevich. Illinois’ former governor faced sentencing twice. Both times, a federal judge wallopped him with a 14-year prison term that still stands as one of the harshest corruption sentences handed down at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Now Blagojevich is a free man — commuted and pardoned by President Donald Trump.

3 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Jon Seidel |Dave McKinney

If anyone knows how former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan is feeling these days, it might be Rod Blagojevich. Illinois’ former governor faced sentencing twice. Both times, a federal judge wallopped him with a 14-year prison term that still stands as one of the harshest corruption sentences handed down at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Now Blagojevich is a free man — commuted and pardoned by President Donald Trump.

4 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Dave McKinney |Dave McKinney

As a storied political fixture for a half century, convicted former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan accumulated a lot of friends. Nearly 250 of them flooded the judicial docket late Friday with letters of support for the politically and legally vanquished, 83-year-old Democratic political boss who could be a federal inmate into his 90s if prosecutors get their way.