Friends of Michael J Madigan
Political Committees |
Committee - Candidate
PO Box 3188, Chicago, IL 60654-4630
Recent News About Friends of Michael J Madigan
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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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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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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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Alaina Hampton, a woman who has claimed Illinois Democrats, led by House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, blackballed her in retaliation for complaining a Madigan operative sexually harassed her, has settled her case with Madigan, the state Democratic Party and other Madigan-controlled political organizations.
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A man who claimed his campaign to unseat Illinois’ most powerful legislator was shortcircuited by sham candidates planted on the ballot to dilute the Hispanic vote can’t continue to press his lawsuit against Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan over those dirty tricks, because voters had ample knowledge of the shady tactics, yet still chose to elect Madigan anyway, a federal judge has ruled.
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Saying she was ignored, belittled and then effectively shunned and fired, a female former campaign worker for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s political organizations has sued her former employers for allegedly doing next to nothing to address the sexual harassment she said she suffered at the hands of a high-ranking operative within the Madigan organization and the brother of a Chicago alderman.
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A former primary election challenger to Illinois’ top state Democratic politician has been cleared to continue to sue Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and some of his supporters for allegedly placing “sham candidates” on the ballot two years ago to confuse and split the Hispanic vote, reducing the threat the opponent posed to the powerful Chicago lawmaker.
