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Illinois’ ex-House speaker charged with racketeering
The Associated Press ^ | March 2, 2022 | By MICHAEL TARM and JOHN O’CONNOR

Posted on 03/02/2022 3:07:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

May he enjoy an interesting retirement.


41 posted on 03/02/2022 5:08:48 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: infool7

You are right.

If one party stays corrupt too long, both parties become corrupt. Look at New Jersey, New York, and Louisiana. There was nobody left to throw out. I remember years ago prison guard jobs being allocated to party. If you were a guard, and didn’t donate to the party you were fired.

I think they are all New World Order crooks now.


42 posted on 03/02/2022 5:26:23 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: decal

being the same age and knowing the pure Hell he’s about to go through, I thank God for not being in his shoes.


43 posted on 03/02/2022 5:26:40 PM PST by libstripper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There’s a reason Illinois was called Madiganistan.


44 posted on 03/02/2022 5:47:07 PM PST by Poison Pill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BTTT


45 posted on 03/02/2022 6:09:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FINALLY! This man is cancer on the state of Illinois, and is corrupt to the bone. I don’t know what will come of it, given his connections, but considering we’ve sentenced corrupt governors, I have hope.

I would LOVE to be on that jury... Granted, I’d be impartial, but there is a lot of evidence stackes up against him.


46 posted on 03/02/2022 7:06:31 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: infool7

It won’t end the democrat party. Cook county has a lot of good people in it, but also has too many who just want their free sh!t or who toe the party line no matter what. It is loaded with crazy white guilt liberals, and we know they’re the most radical of all.


47 posted on 03/02/2022 7:11:40 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

Exactly! You have to read four paragraphs into the article to learn he’s a Democrat.


48 posted on 03/02/2022 8:20:42 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; piasa; Liz

Madigan’s case is tied to ComEd (Commonwealth Edison Company). Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers, was CEO of ConEd (Consolidated Edison).

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https://www.thechicagosyndicate.com/search/label/Mike%20Madigan

ComEd Pays $200 Million to Resolve Bribery Scheme Amid Reports of Allegedly Arranging Jobs and Contracts for Political Allies of Michael Madigan?

Commonwealth Edison Company (“ComEd”), the largest electric utility in Illinois, has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a years-long bribery scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago announced. . .

Ex-Governor of Illinois Accuses Democrats of Ties to The Chicago Outfit

The adjourned session of the General Assembly failed abysmally to come to grips with Illinois’ pervasive state of corruption. Leading the failure were two Chicagoans — Mike Madigan, speaker of the House and John Cullerton, president of the Senate. . .

The credo of toleration and its accompanying lack of ethical standards was hardened when the machine encountered Al Capone’s criminal organization. Sometimes close, sometimes at arms’ length, the political organization with its “look the other way” credo has ever since tolerated what has been called variously the criminal organization, crime syndicate, the Mob, the Chicago Outfit.

The blindness to crime existed in the 11th Ward organization, home for all the Daleys. The precinct captains of that ward organization worked the same streets as the Outfit’s soldiers.

Yet, Daley constantly denied that organized crime existed in Chicago. Significantly, Richard M. Daley looked the other way as state’s attorney, Cook County’s chief law enforcement officer from 1980 to 1989. Ignored during those years were the criminal activities of the Outfit disclosed recently by the Family Secrets trial. . .


49 posted on 03/02/2022 8:37:17 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Democrat charged with a crime? Racketeering?

Shirley this is a mistake. Democrats are caring humanitarians. They are not criminals. We need to let them run every aspect of our lives, they care so much. (/s)

50 posted on 03/02/2022 8:51:10 PM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Funny I didn’t see the D in the article. Must have been an inadvertent oversight.


51 posted on 03/02/2022 9:10:30 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Luv it!!


52 posted on 03/02/2022 9:45:10 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Luv it!!


53 posted on 03/02/2022 9:45:27 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Tacrolimus1mg
Tell me about it...

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” -John Adams

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54 posted on 03/03/2022 11:33:01 AM PST by infool7 (Those that make peaceful (counter)revolution impossible make violent rebellion inevitable. - JFK)
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