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(The Center Square) – Attorneys are expected to discuss jury instructions Thursday at the federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago. Judge John Robert ...
(The Center Square) – U.S. District Court Judge John Robert Blakey of the Northern District of Illinois is reviewing jury instructions ahead of closing arguments at the public corruption trial ...
Four ComEd executives and lobbyists were convicted in 2023 in a related trial, and ComEd itself agreed to pay $200 million in fines as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with prosecutors.
For a more complete list see: List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes and List of federal political scandals in the United States. Dozens of high-level United States federal officials have been convicted of public corruption offenses for conduct while in office. These officials have been convicted under two types of statutes.
Several statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States.Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
Four ComEd executives and lobbyists were convicted in 2023 in the related ComEd Four trial, and ComEd itself agreed to pay $200 million in fines as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with ...
Mike McClain is a co-defendant in the case, [2] [3] who was convicted in the previous year's ComEd case. [4] [5] The case is regarded as one of the biggest public corruption cases in the history of Illinois, [6] and as a landmark case. [7] The trial has been described as one of the most anticipated public corruption trials in the history of ...
(The Center Square) – Jurors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's corruption trial told the judge Wednesday that they were deadlocked on 12 counts filed by federal prosecutors.