The prosecution’s best testimony has come from the defendants’ own mouths, captured in the dozens of wiretapped phone calls and secretly recorded videos.
As the trial shifts to the defense phase, one thing has become clear. The prosecution’s best testimony hasn’t come from the cooperators who testified, but from the defendants’ own mouths.
Timothy Mapes is used to being in the middle of the action. He spent decades as former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s chief of staff and executive director of the Madigan-run Democratic Party of Illinois. Madigan even anointed Mapes as clerk of the House, giving him a trio of powerful positions, all designed to carry out the will of the nation’s longest-serving speaker. But on Friday the .