Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was the state’s most powerful politician in 2018 when he allegedly met at his downtown Chicago law office with then-Ald. Danny Solis to discuss Solis’ appointment to a lucrative state board position. Solis, who unbeknownst to Madigan was an FBI mole, made it clear he’d helped bring law business to Madigan and wanted something in return once he retired .
(The Center Square) – A federal judge put the sentencing of four former utility executives and lobbyists on hold Thursday until after the U.S. Supreme Court decides a case involving
(The Center Square) – A federal judge put the sentencing of four former utility executives and lobbyists on hold Thursday until after the U.S. Supreme Court decides a case involving the federal bribery statute this summer. .
(The Center Square) – National labor unions have taken up the cause of a former Indiana mayor convicted twice of taking a $13,000 bribe after steering city contracts to a
If disgraced former Portage Mayor James Snyder is guilty of accepting a bribe, then so is just about everybody else. So goes the argument by Snyder’s attorneys in their most recent filing, made Monday, as his case meanders its way to the U.S. Supreme Court and they argue that a federal appeals court should have agreed to meet as a panel to hear his request for an appeal. In an order filed July .