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Michael Madigan guilty of bribery conspiracy, wire fraud
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | February 12, 2025 | John Seidel, et al.

Posted on 02/12/2025 12:20:25 PM PST by PBRCat

The decade-long FBI investigation that led to Madigan’s trial roiled local politics and changed the course of Illinois history. The feds summoned 50 witnesses to a 12th-floor courtroom in their bid to prove Madigan and Michael McClain guilty of “corruption at the highest levels of state government.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; corruption; democrats; madigan
The jury deliberated for eleven days and issued a partial verdict. Madigan was found guilty on ten counts, but the jurors could not agree on the remaining counts.

Madigan was a Democrat political boss for decades and he helped damage Illinois and turn the state from red to blue.

1 posted on 02/12/2025 12:20:25 PM PST by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

Now do his useless daughter.

L


2 posted on 02/12/2025 12:23:08 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Thereafter do Pritzker.


3 posted on 02/12/2025 12:31:56 PM PST by KC Burke
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To: KC Burke

Prickster first please!


4 posted on 02/12/2025 12:36:37 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: PBRCat

Madigan is 82 and still holds many secrets and has some closet friends.

After more delays and more appeals...

He will be found too old and frail to imprison...

Perhaps Blago will spill a few secrets on the great and glorious 0bama deal, as 0bama’s story like his edifice is full of cracks.


5 posted on 02/12/2025 12:43:40 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: PBRCat

Give Madigan the Governor’s Suite at the federal pen, for now.


6 posted on 02/12/2025 12:45:08 PM PST by omega4412
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To: Lurker

Lock them both up.


7 posted on 02/12/2025 12:46:31 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: KC Burke

Pronto.


8 posted on 02/12/2025 12:46:42 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

And then hopefully we can lock Obeyme up for the rest of his life.


9 posted on 02/12/2025 12:47:11 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Lurker
Now do his useless daughter.

Its weird how she just completely left politics just before her (adoptive) father's fortunes started to decline.

As AG, one wonders how much she protected him.

10 posted on 02/12/2025 12:51:22 PM PST by PGR88
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Madigan is 82 and still holds many secrets and has some closet friends.

After more delays and more appeals...

He will be found too old and frail to imprison...

Perhaps Blago will spill a few secrets on the great and glorious 0bama deal, as 0bama’s story like his edifice is full of cracks.


And the Democrats for nine years have tried to have Donald Trump put in prison. He will be 79 years old this June, and the Democrats will keep going after him even when his term of office ends and he is 82.


11 posted on 02/12/2025 12:53:32 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: PBRCat

Interesting, a far left wing lunatic, State Representative Kelly Cassidy, who has sponsored some of the most radical LBGTQ and abortionist legislation imaginable, tried to condemn Madigan by linking his corruption to President Trump.


12 posted on 02/12/2025 1:05:36 PM PST by PBRCat
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Hey Mikie make sure the video cameras in your cell block don’t go on the fritz.


13 posted on 02/12/2025 1:14:07 PM PST by The Louiswu (You get what you vote for, good and hard.)
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To: KeyLargo

—”and the Democrats will keep going after him even when his term of office ends and he is 82.”

And all that time he is living inside their heads rent-free!


14 posted on 02/12/2025 1:35:38 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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15 posted on 02/12/2025 3:34:49 PM PST by KeyLargo
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