The public corruption trial of Illinois’ longest-serving speaker of the House was postponed six months while a federal judge waits for a US Supreme Court ruling that could alter the case.
“I’m not going to stay the case, but I am going to move the trial,” US Judge John Robert Blakey of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois told a crowded Chicago courtroom Wednesday.
Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House speaker before leaving office in 2021, and Michael McClain, a longtime Madigan associate, are charged with racketeering and bribery, among ...
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