Before the sun rose on a cold Wednesday morning in January 2019, Fidel Marquez agreed to a life-altering assignment as a ...

A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury apparently deadlocked 11-1 on charges alleging former AT&T Illinois boss Paul La Schiazza bribed House Speaker Michael Madigan.

A judge declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked 11-1 on charges alleging former AT&T Illinois leader Paul La Schiazza bribed former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. The mistrial marks ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan arrives at the Dirksen U.S ... One juror told the Tribune after the mistrial was declared that there seemed to be very little daylight between ...

McClain is accused of shielding the former speaker by acting as an intermediary ... were found guilty of bribing Madigan. And just last month, a mistrial was declared in the case of former ...

Madigan was the longest-serving State House Speaker in American history ... a deadlocked jury forced a mistrial in the case of former AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza, who was accused ...

who’d been charged with bribing Madigan in a similar manner as ComEd with a contract for the speaker’s political ally who never did any work for his $22,500 payout. The mistrial, as well as a ...

Read more: 4 decades after rising to power and nearly 4 years since his fall, former Speaker Madigan ... month deadlocked and ...

Read more: Jury deadlocks, mistrial declared in case of ex-AT&T boss accused of bribing Madigan Though that trial's outcome was a hopeful development for Madigan, it's unclear if it will have any ...

who’d been charged with bribing Madigan in a similar manner as ComEd with a contract for the speaker’s political ally who never did any work for his $22,500 payout. The mistrial, as well as a ...

One juror told the Tribune after the mistrial was declared that there ... building trust and increasing access” to the speaker, he said. Madigan’s ‘dirty work’ In their opening statement ...