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Accused Four Corner Hustlers chief Labar Spann and reputed Wicked Town leader Donald Lee are set to go on trial all over again, years after their original convictions in federal court.
John Hooker is the first of four former ComEd officials set to be sentenced in the coming weeks. Prosecutors say he, like Madigan, lied on the witness stand at trial.
The singer’s lawyers say a woman who testified against him in 2022 only did so after threats and promises were made by federal prosecutors. The woman had declined to testify in a separate trial in 2008.
U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold denied the singer’s request amid what he claims is a plot by prison officials to have him killed. The singer’s lawyers have insisted their legal fight is not over.
Not due for freedom until December 2045, Kelly claims that prison officials enlisted a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood to assassinate him.
Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until 2021, with the exception of two years. Along the way, he developed a reputation as an all-powerful political wizard who wielded vast influence over laws affecting nearly every aspect of life in the state.
Kelly, 58, is being held in a medium-security prison facility in Butner, North Carolina, records show. He’s serving a 30-year sentence there for his 2021 racketeering and sex-crime convictions in New York.
Madigan was the longest-serving state House leader in U.S. history, spending 36 years as speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. Prosecutors want a judge to give him 12 ½ years in prison.
Kelly’s lawyers say in a motion that prison officials hatched a plot to get an inmate to kill him. The filing is the latest bid to undo his 30-year sentence for sex crimes and racketeering.
It’s been a little more than a month since Jones’ trial ended with a hung jury. Prosecutors say Jones agreed to protect a red-light camera executive in exchange for $5,000 and a job for a former intern.