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(The Center Square) – Federal authorities and state lawmakers say they will keep fighting public corruption in Illinois after the conviction of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Some in Illinois have raised questions about Trump's dedication to prosecuting public corruption after the president commuted the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. [1] Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. [2] Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012, behind New York and California. A study published by the University ...
(The Center Square) – An analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Justice found on average more than one Illinois public servant was convicted every week between 1983 and 2023. As longtime ...
Several statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States.Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
The federal investigation continued after his removal from office, and he was indicted on corruption charges in April of that year. [3] The jury found Blagojevich guilty in August 2010 of one charge of making false statements with a mistrial being declared on the other 23 counts due to a hung jury after 14 days of jury deliberation. [4]
Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the Chicago jurisdiction).
Madigan corruption trial continues Evidence and witnesses involving AT&T are the focus Tuesday at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and ...