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Prosecutors want 12.5 year sentence for former Speaker Michael Madigan (Updated x2)
Friday, May 30, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller * Click here for the full document…
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* Tribune | Feds want lengthy 12 1/2-year prison sentence for ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan, while defense asks for probation: [Madigan’s attorneys] submitted more than 200 letters of support from relatives, colleagues, former politicians and everyday people who said he touched their lives. “Mike Madigan is a remarkable husband, father, friend, and public servant,” Madigan’s defense team wrote in their 55-page filing. “Throughout his 83-year life, Mike quite literally changed the lives of tens of thousands of people in his district on the south side of Chicago. He positively impacted millions of people throughout the State of Illinois.”
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- JR - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 5:30 pm:
Sentencing is Friday, June 13th at 1pm. Who’s bringing the popcorn?
- Heartburn - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 5:50 pm:
how much a gratuity do you think the Prez is asking for to pardon?
- FormerParatrooper - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 5:51 pm:
Wouldn’t an apple be more appropriate?
12.5 years seems a little lean.
- DuPage Saint - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 6:04 pm:
Really? Life?
- Andersonville Right Winger - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 6:07 pm:
Good.
- Tim - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 6:20 pm:
Hopefully that gives the rest of the Democrats In the state of Illinois a clue of what’s waiting for them.
- Candy Dogood - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 6:33 pm:
===Really? Life? ===
I would suspect at many points in Madigan’s 50 year career in the legislature he could have ceased practices that constituted felonies. After all, when do you think these felonious practices started?
If he dies in prison, he dies in prison. That’s one of the consequences of committing felonies in your 70s. People who don’t want to die in prison should probably, maybe, avoid in committing felonies in their 70s.
- Donnie Elgin - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 6:40 pm:
Years of corruption and exploiting his office, the suggested sentence seems appropriate - and please spare us the argument about his age. He could have left office decades ago as a rich man.
- West Side the Best Side - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 7:12 pm:
And the Republicans will count on their TACO to pardon them so they aren’t worried.
- Candy Dogood - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 7:46 pm:
===unwavering presence===
Not the term I would use when it’s clear the specter of his corruption continues to hang over Illinois and his corruption wound its way into every part of Illinois government.
- don the legend - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 7:57 pm:
Sentencing set for Friday the 13th. Is the speaker superstitious?
- Proud Papa Bear - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 8:12 pm:
The difference between Democrats and Republicans:
Democrats hold their felons accountable.
Republicans re-elect them.
- Hawkeye - Friday, May 30, 25 @ 11:19 pm:
Except for that Blagojevich re-election
- George - Saturday, May 31, 25 @ 6:33 am:
=The difference between Democrats and Republicans:
Democrats hold their felons accountable.
Republicans re-elect them.=
True, as bad a Madigan was, at least his career was short
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Saturday, May 31, 25 @ 1:22 pm:
There were some interesting letters. I will say I appreciated there were some from normal folks who were helped by Madigan or his office, which I don’t recall seeing in Burke’s letters of support.