U.S. Attorney: Lawmakers free to pursue Madigan investigtion

Illinois lawmakers are free to pursue their own investigation into House Speaker Michael Madigan’s role in a bribery scheme involving utility giant Commonwealth Edison, as long as they don’t specifically ask witnesses what information they’ve shared with federal investigators or a federal grand jury.That was the word late Thursday from John Lausch Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.”We recognize the (Special Investigating […]