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 ...

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

Now that Trump is back in the White House, he and Putin will reunite in “The Donny & Poot Show” on FOX weeknights at 9 p.m. Expected guests include: Bashar al-Assad, Viktor Orban, Kim Jong Un, ...

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

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy wants a pardon from President Donald Trump. And why not? Isn't everybody these days?

Mayor Daniel Biss celebrated the vote, calling it “a crucial piece of our climate agenda and one of my campaign promises from ...

President Donald Trump’s moves to expand the use of pardons have white-collar defendants jolting to attention — and many are responding with creative maneuvers designed to appeal less to judges or ...

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

President Donald Trump issued a pardon to former Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who had pleaded guilty in a federal ...

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

Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political ... some of the same people I had to deal with,” Trump said at the White House as he signed the pardon. Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 ...

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