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State campaign finance disclosures reveal trial lawyers, their firms and political lobbying groups have donated more than $175,000 to Madigan's two campaign organizations since Sept. 30.
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A federal judge granted CUB, with its lawyers from the firm of Edelson P.C., permission to gain a stake in any judgments or settlements offered by ComEd to resolve at least two class actions on behalf of the utility's customers, arising from the utility's role in a bribery conspiracy with the political machine of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
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A blizzard of class actions under Illinois' biometrics privacy law, plus sustained strength in asbestos lawsuits, keep Cook County and the two downstate counties near the top of the list of court systems renowned for being friendly to 'no-injury lawsuits' and 'meritless' claims.
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Illinoisans pay a combined 32.2% tax rate on their wireless service, tops in the U.S., thanks in part to 2017 legislation hiking 911 fees, which was backed by House Speaker Michael Madigan.
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Federal prosecutors unveiled more charges in the investigation that threatens to draw ever closer to Illinois' powerful House Speaker and Democratic Party chairman.
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A Chinatown developer made the recording in 2014, which is still a piece to a lengthy federal investigation.
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Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who is also chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois, has been implicated in a federal bribery investigation. Trial lawyers, however, continue to donate money to Madigan's campaign organization.
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Five key supporters of the progressive tax in the Illinois General Assembly are facing corruption probes. Four have been charged. Three have resigned.
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SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride, standing for his second retention in the Third District, protected the redistricting power of House Speaker Mike Madigan after Madigan clinched Kilbride’s first retention.
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Several Chicago building owners say electric rates skyrocketed, while ComEd pocketed hundreds of millions in profits, thanks to its allegedly successful efforts to allegedly bribe Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan by hiring his allies.
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A new class action in Chicago federal court directly targets powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and his associates for their roles in the alleged bribery and racketeering conspiracy with ComEd.
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Oakbrook Terrace village and its ex-mayor Tony Ragucci, who was found with $60,000 in cash in his home by the FBI, wants suit tossed, which alleges Oakbrook Terrace officials schemed to install red light cameras for fines, not safety.
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Northern Illinois' largest electrical utility was hit with two class action lawsuits, demanding it repay its customers perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars for allegedly using a bribery scheme to curry favor with Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to pass laws that allowed it to rack up hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, in profit, since at least 2011.
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Commonwealth Edison Company (“ComEd”), the largest electric utility in Illinois, has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a years-long bribery scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago announced.
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Federal prosecutors said Madigan, through his associates, demanded "old fashioned patronage" for his associates and allies in exchange for supporting legislation that steered hundreds of millions of dollars from electrical customers to ComEd.
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Illinois' political leadership learned nothing from the Blagojevich nightmare. And now it may be coming back to bite them.
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A state appeals panel says electrical utility ComEd doesn't violate the rights of those applying for customer service positions by pulling their credit history, because those jobs handle a great deal of sensitive customer information.
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A group of Exelon investors have filed suit against the parent company of electrical utility ComEd, asserting the company’s potentially corrupt state lobbying activities in Springfield artificially inflated the company’s stock price, setting investors up for losses when the federal investigation into those activities came to light.
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A state appellate panel said ComEd can’t block local utilities from participating in the renewable energy credit market, affirming an Illinois Commerce Commission ruling.
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A Chicago federal judge has refused to allow the city of Evanston to continue with a three-year-old lawsuit demanding Nicor and ComEd be forced to pay to clean up water pollution and replace sections of city water main because the city asserted the utilities' predecessors operated a long-shuttered gas manufacturing plant near the north suburb.
