Day Nine of Madigan Trial

By Hannah Meisel CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS

A federal jury on Monday heard a wiretapped phone call of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan being told of a plan to line up payments for a top campaign worker the speaker fired after the worker was accused of sexual harassment in 2018.

Capitol News Illinois reports Madigan’s closest political advisor, Mike McClain, lined up several of the speaker’s top allies to quietly pay the ousted campaign worker roughly six-thousand-dollars per month.

In the call, Madigan told McClain that he – quote – “ought to stay out of it.”

Madigan and McClain are now co-defendants in a federal bribery and racketeering trial, which is on its third week of testimony in Chicago.

The woman who publicly accused the campaign worker of harassment is likely to be called to the witness stand this week.