
Many Chicago media outlets think Illinois Speaker Mike Madigan isn't in any real legal trouble yet. The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Then, in August, Solis reached out to the associate and asked him and the developer to attend the meeting with Madigan. The associate explained that he would need to translate for the developer, who did not speak English.Don't be surprised to find out that non-English speaking developer is an uncover FBI agent that speaks better English than you can imagine. Maybe that would explain why the FBI has audio and video of the meeting. It wouldn't be the first time that FBI was interested in Mike Madigan since the Chicago Mob was giving him money. In summary, Mike Madigan was asked to cut property taxes on a building that wasn't built or zoned yet to be built: pretty darn good work there by the FBI.
The meeting happened on Aug. 18, 2014, at the Madigan & Getzendanner law office on LaSalle Street. Madigan and his law partner sat down with the developer and his associate. Solis and two members of his staff arrived later.