Yesterday, jurors in the Madigan corruption trial saw evidence of the former Speaker’s influence throughout state government. Jessica Basham, onetime chief of staff to former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, took the stand Wednesday in Madigan’s ongoing federal corruption trial. Much of her testimony focused on lists of people Madigan’s office recommended for state board and commission positions to the then-nascent office of Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker between 2018 and 2019.
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Quotes from the Madigan Trial shed light into the corruption that he and his partners coordinated.
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