They also revealed in court filings Friday the FBI tried to convince the Madigan aide, Tim Mapes, to work as a "confidential witness" during a meeting in Springfield in February 2019. Mapes "politely declined," according to his attorneys.
Federal prosecutors insisted in a motion Friday that Mapes gave grand jury testimony in 2021 that could be proven false in part because Mapes had been caught on a federal wiretap with longtime Madigan friend Michael McClain. Mapes attorney Andrew Porter followed up Friday with his own 47-page motion that warned the use of the nearly 100 recordings during Mapes’ trial could extend the feds’ case to "well over a month," not the roughly one and a half weeks the feds had promised.Porter then went on to detail many of the conversations that federal prosecutors purportedly hope to play. The topics discussed on the wiretaps range from dinner and travel plans, to holiday gifts, Springfield gossip and intrigue.
In another between McClain and Madigan’s son, Andrew Madigan, the men allegedly discuss claims by then-state Rep. Sara Feigenholtz that she was being "punished" for a press conference about allegations made against Madigan political aide Kevin Quinn.