Whoops
It's really hard to deny your former friend wasn't running your bribery operation when he's on thirty or more wiretaps saying so:
This week began with opening statements in the racketeering conspiracy trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, whose attorneys insisted that no one had the right to speak for the speaker — that Madigan was “ignorant” of what people said behind his back.
But it ended with prosecutors playing a crush of about 30 recordings that suggest otherwise: That Madigan’s longtime friend Michael McClain went straight from retiring as a lobbyist in late 2016 to doing “assignments” for Madigan — what a prosecutor called his “dirty work.”
“This is no longer me talking,” McClain told a veteran lawmaker in one such recording from 2018. “I’m an agent.”
The defense of course, attacked the way the tapes were made, not even bothering to deny the message. They're hope is that everyone knows and accepts that Illinois is perhaps the most crooked state in the union, and that's just how business gets done here.
The fact that Madigan and his cronies got rich is just happenstance. It could have happened to anyone!
Labels: corruption, state politics
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
20 Comments:
But...but....Little booger eater Lisa there was no corruption ....None !
Just because someone says they are someone else's agent does not make it so. I could say i am an agent of Kamala when I write a ticket. It doesn't mean it's a fact.
too bad his pos daughter isn't going down with him... a 2 for tuesday
The fact that Madigan and his cronies got rich is just happenstance. It could have happened to anyone!
One could quip it's the luck of the Irish...mob
always gotta wonder how the everyday people, the average citizens and workers in Chicago and Cook County and the state always knew these politicians were corrupt but it takes the feds 30 to 40 years, if ever, to catch on. who knows, one day they may even figure out what richie daley was doing all those years
We need term limits, here in Illinois and in DC. Also, why did we name a Chicago Park District after Madigan? That's insane!
No surprise here.
"Heavy is the head that wears the crown," you know.
Magic Mike did everything for the sole benefit of the State of Illinois; we would not be where we are today without him, for sure...
I commented a few years ago about what Lil' Lisa must have said while being interviewed by a big money law firm; specificallly her answer to the question, 'What was your biggest case and how did you handle it?'
Her answer:
I diligently and meticulously started and worked a case of long teerm corruption on a staggering and unprecedented level. In it, I deetermined that one person was the architecht of a vast conspiracy that led the state to financial ruin and genuinely undermined the legitimacy of government.
When ready, I confronted the mastermind behind it all...One day, I told him that, in NO uncertain terms, that he was a 'Bad Daddy,' and I refused to eat a piece of my birthday cake, ride the pony he got for me, and held my breath for a WHOLE 2 minutes!!"
Case closed!!
these recordings should be happening in congress!! makes no sense that a bartender is now a millionaire, Pelosi making millions with inside info.
Do you think. Madigan and Burke will be able to get their Bluechew deliveries in prison?
Again, Lisa should likewise be part of a federal investigation for all the years that she knowingly looked the other way at certain people's (and folks) corruption. She's guilty of the crime of omission not necessarily commission like her daddy.
Burke and Madigan nearing expiration dates equates to political cash cows going dry. Blago, too young and no panache, blew any capital he had and Ryan, from the wrong political party, had already commuted death sentences. Nothing Burke or Madigan could do to save face. Late in life atonement for them equates to drastically reduced penalty time. Circle of life in this jungle, Simba.
If there's a Mike statute, will they tear that one down, too?
Too bad Madigan won't live long enough to really serve some serious time in the "Cornhole Hilton!
Prince Richie the Demented? They should have packed his happy ass off to a private room with mattress wallpaper decades ago.
Loose lips sink ships and Illinois politicians
Ed Burke needs a cellmate.
wheres lisa???
Wah wah wah...it was well known that Madigan had a big
hand in all sorts of city jobs...city colleges, even getting
people hooked up in the CPD. All common knowledge.
And to think it took decades for his BS to be brought
into the light.
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