Patrick Cotter, defense attorney for a longtime Madigan ally, spent more than three hours cross-examining former ComEd ...

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

After a four-day break, the defense geared up to begin cross examination on Tuesday morning in former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's federal corruption trial.

Defense attorneys began their cross-examination of a key witness Tuesday by trying to distinguish between exchanging jobs for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The corruption trial for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has begun. Madigan had been indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges as a part of what federal ...

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 ...

Seven years ago almost to the day, Alaina Hampton sent a private letter to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan about sexual harassment from a co-worker that became a turning point in Madigan’s ...

CHICAGO -- As chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison, Fidel Marquez had an expansive role that put him in charge of "approximately 130, 135 people." But in June 2013, more than a ...