After a four-day break, the defense is cross-examining a star witness on Tuesday in Mike Madigan's federal corruption trial.

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.

Patrick Cotter, defense attorney for a longtime Madigan ally, spent more than three hours cross-examining former ComEd ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lawyer for former House Speaker Michael Madigan told jurors at the outset of his corruption trial that the Democratic powerhouse was “completely ignorant” of what people were saying behind ...

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

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 ...