CHICAGO (WLS) — The federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan continued Monday at the Dirksen Federal Building.
The morning was spent picking up where the trial left off Thursday.
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Going through pages and pages of accounting records, checks and invoices may not make for exciting testimony, but that is how government prosecutors continued to build their corruption case against Madigan and his co-defendant, former lobbyist Michael McClain.
An FBI accountant and fraud analyst walked the jury through the more than $1.3 million in payments the agency uncovered ComEd made between 2011 and 2019 to five men, who performed no work at all for the utility company. All five were former precinct captains or elected officials connected to Madigan.
Prosecutors essentially called one FBI agent for each of the search warrants executed on the homes/offices of McClain, Jay Doherty, Shaw …