Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

Former Republican Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance law, was ...

Precisely one month from the history-making moment former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted of corruption, ...

An enduringly controversial play in Pete Rose’s long, Hall of Fame-caliber Major League Baseball career had a certain Donald Trump quality to it. It’s a baseball-political link between the president ...

Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles public corruption cases have been told the unit will be ...

Brian Kelsey, a Republican, pleaded guilty to illegally funneling money to his failed campaign for Congress in 2016. He later ...

Released two weeks into a 21-month prison sentence for a campaign finance conspiracy conviction, a former Tennessee ...

Donald Trump’s habit of handing out presidential pardons like party favors was a scandal in his first term. It’s worse now.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political corruption charges he commuted during his first term.

The Justice Department’s public integrity section, which handles corruption cases against government officials, is set to be ...

Illinois has a Democratic trifecta and a Democratic triplex. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As ...