Michael Madigan's former chief of staff is on the stand Wednesday in the former Illinois House speaker's federal corruption trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
Michael Madigan's former chief of staff is on the stand Wednesday in the former Illinois House speaker's federal corruption trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.As an analyst for the research and appropriations unit, Basham prepared memos and other documents detailing personnel recommendations, appointments to boards and commissions to Gov. JB Pritzker's administrations and others.
In early 2019, she prepared these memos of personnel recommendations at the direction of the speaker. It was like a tracking list of individuals who had been recommended for Pritzker.The speaker's staff would email the governor's office to get status updates regarding the personnel recommendations.Madigan's defense attorney Daniel Collins asked Jessica Basham if the former speaker worked long hours.
The government is trying to prove that Madigan ran, what amounted to, a criminal enterprise, using his position in Springfield to enrich himself and his political allies.
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