Megan Crepeau
Chicago Correspondent at Bloomberg Law
Chicago Tribune reporter, proud @ctguild member, dog person. Not really on here anymore. [email protected]
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6 days ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Megan Crepeau |Holly Barker
Former Commonwealth Edison insiders accused of bribing ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D) are asking a Chicago federal court to undo convictions for falsifying the company’s records in light of a US Supreme Court decision that drew a distinction between “false” and “misleading” statements. The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois already vacated the bribery convictions of the “ComEd Four” based on the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Snyder v. United States.
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1 week ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Megan Crepeau
An Illinois state senator on trial for bribery testified Thursday that he was at one point considering cooperating with the government but was uncomfortable with agents’ request that he wear a wire to record his colleagues and a local hospital CEO. “Why were you not willing to wear a wire?” attorney Victor Henderson of Henderson Parks, who represents Sen. Emil Jones III (D), asked his client on the stand. Jones sighed and took a long pause. “Because if...” he said, then paused again.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Megan Crepeau
An Illinois state senator on trial for bribery testified Thursday that he was at one point considering cooperating with the government but was uncomfortable with agents’ request that he wear a wire to record his colleagues and a local hospital CEO. “Why were you not willing to wear a wire?” attorney Victor Henderson of Henderson Parks, who represents Sen. Emil Jones III (D), asked his client on the stand. Jones sighed and took a long pause. “Because if...” he said, then paused again.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Megan Crepeau
An Illinois state senator took the stand in his own federal bribery trial Wednesday, and testified he never intended to take any money from a red-light camera executive who was secretly working as an FBI mole. “From the first meeting with me and him alone, I felt a bad vibe,” Sen. Emil Jones III (D) said of Omar Maani.
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1 week ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Megan Crepeau |Sam Skolnik
The US Labor Department can’t enforce part of an executive order from President Donald Trump that targets diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The nationwide preliminary injunction ordered Monday follows a temporary restraining order issued on March 27 by Judge Matthew F.
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