Michael Madigan Jury has terminated its third day without consulting Illinois’s highest-day public corruption testing.
The jury of eight women and four men started consulting on Wednesday afternoon and remained seated without reaching a decision on Thursday throughout the day. He wrapped on Friday at around 3 pm on Friday, gave his total discussion time in about 14 hours. He has been slated to return on Monday morning to continue his discussion.
Madigan, who spent the decades as a state house speaker and ruled the Illinois Democratic Cocks with a tight grip, was accused of running his political and government operations like a criminal venture. He was accused of Michael McClen, a former lobist who was a man of Madigan’s right hand.
The gamblers did not send any note or question to the judge on Friday. So far, his only communication has been about scheduling – and office supply. Shortly before noon on Thursday, he sent a note to the judge, asked for more highlighters, sticky notes and white-outs.
On Wednesday, with the requests for at least five more copies of the prosecution with “more pen and highlighters and tape”.
After reading Thursday’s note, US District Judge John Robert Blacky said, “There is a lot of art and crafts going on.” When another message of gamblers came later during the day, the judge jokingly said that it would be only a red flag “if they start asking for pipe cleaner and macaroni.”
The gamblers will have to consider 23 cases against Madigan, alleging an array of plans to enrich their political allies and line their pockets. McClane is charged in six of them.
To help his idea -discourse, gamblers have entered evidence in evidence in about 100 -page legal instructions, dozens of undercover recording, and hundreds of emails, texts and other documents.
The 82-year-old Madigan, towards the southwest of Chicago, was the most powerful person in Illinois politics for decades, the state was ruling the Democratic Party and setting up a national record for the longest serving speaker in the state house Had been. He is a retired lobist from his co-pattist, Michael McClane, 77, Downstate Qureesy who worked as a man of Madigan’s right hand.
In addition to plans to pressurize the developers to hire Madigan’s law firm, the prosecution accused Madigan and McClane of bribery schemes involving comed and AT and T Illinois, where the utilities reportedly But paid through do-nathing subcontracts, which make the subcontinent as a subcontinent for the speaker’s closest colleagues.
At the beginning of the case, the prosecutors told the jury that the test was about corruption at the highest level of the state government, where Madigan and McClenn had planned to take advantage of the power of the speaker for the benefit for both themselves and their colleagues. .
The topic continued till the end, with assistant American Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu on Wednesday, showing a handwritten note that McClen wrote to Madigan in 2016, telling the speaker that Illinois was a better place because he was a “hand on Ruder” .
“And this was true – Mr. Madigan placed his hand on the king’s hull,” Bhachu said. “He had something else in his hand too. He had the belief that was placed in each and every member of the public. Mr. Madigan misused that belief. He lost his way. He was blinded by the desire to stay in power, profit from power. ,
Meanwhile, Madigan’s lawyers argued that the prosecutors failed to act with the former speaker with corrupt intentions.
Raksha Attorney Daniel Collins said near the end of his concluding argument, “Mike Madigan was not part of any raccizing enterprise.” “He was a public officer who performed his best. He has made some mistakes, but he always tried to build a consensus to cooperate. Who was he. Who is the one who tries to be. ,
Meanwhile, McClen Attorney Patrick Kotter on Tuesday argued that his client was a hardworking – if ever “blunt” and “soil” – lobists who ever had or did not know or not knowing about a bribery plan.
He only worked with a commitment to his customers and a true respect for Madigan, said Kotar.
“Was it very real, very unique and – I will present it on the basis of overall evidence in this case – a very civilized person really intends to engage in a conspiracy to bribe the person which he has been closer to his closest Had thought as a friend? ” Cotter asked.