A Chicago newspaper reported Jan. 29 that a lengthy federal court affidavit says the FBI secretly recorded Illinois’ powerful House speaker in 2014 discussing a hotel development project and the possibility of its Chinese developer becoming a client of the speaker’s private law firm.
The Chicago Sun-Times report on Michael Madigan, a formidable power broker in Illinois for decades, suggests a federal investigation may cast a much wider net than first thought after it led to an attempted extortion charge earlier this month against an influential Chicago alderman, Ed Burke.
