Along with allegations of corruption at the highest level of the state government, former Democratic House President Michael J. The pre-tested test of Madigan and his long-standing, pre-lobasts Michael McClen, is certainly serious business.
But with any long test, especially filled with large personalities and undercover wiretaps scores, there were lots of fun and off-the-wall moments during 16 weeks of proceedings.
Here are some of the highlights:
Funny Apropos Madigan and Gatezander Catch music
Looking at the external discipline of Madigan as a McIellian figure, who prefer to rule in the shade, is probably no better – or strange – selection for your law firm “in the hall of Mountain King”, 1875 compared to “Mountain King’s hall”, 1875 The orchestral classic of K. depicted the colleague gint. Fantasy about meeting Norwegian Troll King Dovreguben.
The jury learned this strange fact when prosecutors had a prominent wiretapped conversation from June 2017, when FBI Mol Daniel Solis called the speaker back to Madigan and Gatezandner. “A moment please,” the receptionist said, before the inauspicious sounds of Basoon and Cellos gradually filled the courtroom … Bup Bup Bup Bup Bup Bup Bup … interrupted when Madigan picked up with a friendly, “Hey Danny.”
Bob Rita’s amazing disappearance
State rape. Bob Rita was famous in the 2023 “COMED Four” test famous that her former boss Madigan ruled the house through “fear and threats”, so when she was among the first prosecution witnesses in the case of Madigan When the stand hit as a stand, anticipation of the expectation was more to repeat a repeat.
But a Blue Island Democrat, Rita, was questioned for about 10 minutes only on 24 October. The first test was tested. Shortly before Rita returned to the next morning, some clearly had amnes, a long delay and scuffle through documents with prosecutors and agents and via cellphone. Rita was waiting in the hallway with her lawyer, but when the jury returned, the judge told her that Rita’s testimony would be “taken out of revenge,” to the reasons unexpecteding.
But Rita never returned, not that day or weeks. Finally, as the prosecution case was wrapped in the chief on December 16, the judge told the jury that he never saw him to pretend to be pretending.
“He will not join us for the test,” said US District Judge John Robert Blacky. “You are completely disregarding all questions and answers.”
Rita, who really exists, has so far refused to comment on what happened.
A win for Zipper? Notre Dame Factor
Question: How often has a major public corruption test with a National College Football Playoff, where Alma Metter of both the Chief defendant and the judge carried forward the championship game?
A: Never, of course. So far.
Fighting Irish’s playoff became a warm subject of late conversation in the push trial. During the entire arguments on the jury instructions in early January, the lawyers spent that it seemed like an eternity whether a small phrase should be single or double quotes between more than 100 pages of instructions. Prominent prosecutor Amarjeet Bhachu said that he cannot believe that he was still talking about it, inspiring Balaki to say this, quite peacefully, “It’s fine. When I miss the kickoff of sugar bowl, I will know why this happened. ,
Notre Dame defeated Georgia in Chinese Bowl to proceed in the National Championship.
The jury also heard a lot about the Notre Dame in testimony. In a wiring conversation from 2018, McClane and Solis began talking about Madigan’s favorite teams, and McClane issued a strict warning to Alderman: “You don’t want to see the notre dame game with her.”
“He is mad. I mean, he is screaming and shouting all the time, so you don’t want to sit in the room, watch him in the living room and see a notre dame game. … he gets very emotional, “McClenn warns.
During her testimony on 7 January, Madigan explained to the jury that going to the notre Dame was a “pre-planned decision” in her house.
“We were a Catholic family. At that time, the Nonre Dame was considered a premiere Catholic school. There was never any question in the house. I was going to go here. ,
A week after Madigan’s departure, it was time for a big game. Before breaking for the weekend, one of the lawyers of Madigan asked the judge if he had any prediction.
“Sister Mary Egnes said that you should never bet on Irish because God will punish me,” Balaki said. “I will keep my thoughts with me, although I am sure everyone knows how I want I want to exclude it.”
The judge was also asked if he was going into the game, but he said that it was difficult to come by tickets – especially at his short donation level.
“Would you like some 50-yard-line tickets?” Madigan Attorney Tom Breen joked.
Blacky said, “I don’t know if it was a bribe or a gratuity, but I am neither insisting nor accepting it.”
Ohio State defeated Notre Dame 34-23.
Cream of pizza, alcohol and broccoli soup? Secret recording … captured a lot about food.
Certainly, the jury witnessed a lot of internal formulas in a wireless phone calls and undercover videos. But often, tape provided a window in everyday life of some of its goals, just below their food habits.
“So, he has three soup,” Madigan told his wife, Sherley in a conversation recorded from McClen’s wireless cellphone in June 2018. “Broccoli cream, spinach with egg drops …”
The slices of life were played in a clear attempt for gamblers, which were unusually close to Madigan and McClane – and to remind them that Madigan did not have her own cellphone.
Another recording caught Madigan, tired at the end of a controversial legislative session, asked McClen, “Do you want to come for some alcohol?” And a special agent of an FBI also testified to the proximity of the co-operatives, how many times they had dinner together, and specified that some of their common huntings had now included Sangmo Club and Alexander’s steakhouse in Springfield, as well as coco Pazo as well as cocoa pazo was also included. Union League Club in Chicago.
Chicago was a special favorite of the Italian joint, Bruna, the speaker, in the heart of Chicago Neberhood, learned by gamblers. According to a secretly recorded conversation with FBI Mol Daniel Solis, he clearly pulled the wire to fix his phone.
“So, I called 20 times. This won’t happen. So, I just went there. I said, ‘Your phones are not working.’ ‘Madigan remembered. “And so, two days later I have come back and Uh, his wife is there and he set calls on her cellphone. They cannot go to the landline.”
Madigan explained that he injured “calling one of the lobists for AT&T” to get someone out in the restaurant to fix the problem.
Some tapes captured the participants not only while talking about food, but also the food. In such an undercover video from Saputo’s restaurant in Springfield, a popular political meat-up, McClenn was seen looking like a sausage pizza, while the then-comed executive Fidel Markets, who secretly supported the FBI Stayed, recorded him from a hidden. Camera.
In his closing argument, McClen’s Attorney Patrick Kotter issued an unmatched apology on behalf of his customer, not that any gamblers took the crime that he talks completely with his mouth.
“He didn’t know he was being recorded, or he would have ate his pizza very attractively,” the coatter jokingly said.
A punching bag doll and a knife in the back? Madigan was on his penalist performance for political glands
While the prosecutors have portrayed Madigan as a ruthless and omnipotent boss, he tried to sell himself as a non-unaccounted builder in his testimony, he said he said he said he said he said that he said that he said that he is a prominent mentor of Rockford , Democratic State Rape learned from Zeke Georgi early. “It is important that you understand that everyone comes with their thoughts. All should be given proper respect. ,
The gamblers saw other evidence, however, the honor with Madigan was definitely a two -sided road. In an undercover video, which was recorded by Solis a few days after his number 1 political slavery in Madigan’s office, Republican Bruce Rour lost his reunioning dialect in November 2018, Madigan won his long -term enemy .
The back of the back of Madigan bent against him because he said that a life-shaped punching bag printed with a smiling face of Rour was as a punching bag.
But the speaker’s political groits were not against the politicians of the other side of the corridors only. The same month, Madigan was followed by Gov-elect JB Pritzkar, he got some points against a opponent within his own camp-the then President of Ilynois Senate John Kulerton, who was behind some political advertisements. According to the evidence viewed by the jury, at least light light.
“I think it went very well,” Madigan revealed McClen on a wireless call about the meeting. “I put the knife in Qualrton three or four times.”
When Bhachhu faced Madigan with recording on cross-execution, he found a former speech to accept that Kulerton is a godfather for Madigan’s son.
“And you’re talking about putting a knife in Kulerton, is it right?” Bhachu asked.
“Right,” Madigan said.
“You were discussing the knife in a rhetoric,” Bhachu clarified.
With a chakli, Madigan repeated, “Right.”