They also offer new context to a secretly recorded August 2014 meeting between Madigan, then-Ald. Danny Solis, a hotel developer and a secret government informant. The Chicago Sun-Times exposed details of that recorded meeting in January 2019 in a report that first revealed the feds' interest in the powerful Southwest Side Democrat.
Zenner and the rest of Madigan's legal team wrote that the application, filed on Sept. 26, 2014 - and theorizing Madigan had conspired to commit extortion - amounted to the "first time that the government sought authority to intercept Madigan's communications." Madigan's attorneys wrote that "each and every application" to electronically surveil Madigan until 2019 used the same information from the Sept. 26, 2014 application.The motions are reminiscent of those filed by defense attorneys for indicted Ald. Edward M. Burke , whose separate racketeering case was built in part on evidence gathered by Solis. U.S. District Judge Robert Dow denied them in June.
The details of the meeting were contained in a May 2016 FBI affidavit obtained by the Sun-Times. It said Wong began providing information to the FBI in May 2014, while he was representing a Chinese businessman who wanted a zoning change to build a hotel in Chinatown. Madigan was indicted in March 2022, and the feds expanded their case against him last October. He is accused in multiple schemes - some involving Solis - but among them is the bribery scandal involving ComEd.
He’ll skate, Scott free.
Just pass a Public Park and Public School with this Crook name on the in the Midway Airport area. Crooks with clout! This is him
Let him finish the rest of his life behind bars. He’s part of the problem.