Assistant Republican Leader C.D. Davidsmeyer (R-Murrayville) released the following statement in reaction to today’s guilty verdict on ten counts of bribery conspiracy, bribery, and wire fraud in the federal corruption trial of former Speaker of the House Michael J. Madigan:
“This trial laid bare the corruption and insider dealmaking that were the hallmarks of Speaker Madigan’s reign. Decades of absolute power, controlling every aspect of the legislative and political process in Illinois. Madigan abused his power to reward party loyalists and political hacks with ghost jobs, while enriching himself personally and politically. What this months-long trial made perfectly clear was that Mike Madigan was the Godfather of the Democrats’ Culture of Corruption.”