Ill. Speaker Should Serve Prison Time As Ordered, Feds Urge

By Lauraann Wood ( July 29, 2025, 9:30 PM EDT) -- Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan should serve his seven-and-a-half-year corruption sentence as scheduled because he can't cite any particularly substantial appellate issues that would call for such relief, let alone convince the Seventh Circuit to reverse his entire corruption conviction, federal prosecutors argued Monday....

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