CHICAGO (CBS) – For five days, one of the star witnesses in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal ...

The corruption charges against former House Speaker Michael Madigan are in many ways tethered to his longtime confidant, ...

After a long week of intensive questioning, a panel of 12 people who will decide the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was finalized Thursday, although attorneys for both sides ...

U.S. District Court records Share Federal jurors Wednesday heard Michael J. Madigan’s allies talking on secret FBI recordings about an “old-fashioned patronage system,” the need to keep ...

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, Michael McClain ...

Defense attorneys have begun cross-examining a convicted former ComEd executive at the bribery and racketeering trial of ...

Michael McClain (left), co-defendant of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan (right), leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse following a day of jury selection in their trial. Anthony ...

Former Democratic Party of Illinois campaign worker Alaina Hampton is expected to take the witness stand. Former Madigan ...

The public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain picked back up ...

Officially it’s known as Case No. 22-cr-115, the United States v. Michael Madigan and Michael McClain. Unofficially, it’s one of the biggest public corruption cases ever brought in Illinois ...

Federal prosecutors wasted no time getting to the heart of their case against former longtime Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Streicker began her opening ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Once lauded as thelongest-serving legislative leader in American history, Michael Madigan will enter a federal courtroom this week on charges he used his vast influence to run a ...