Yahoo Finance Afternoon Briefing: Migrant boy, 5, dies during shelter stay
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The lawyer for a co-defendant of ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan told a federal judge today he will seek to delay the landmark case set for April after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take up a Chicago-area case dealing with how the feds charge the bribery statute.
Patrick Cotter, who represents Madigan’s longtime confidant, Michael McClain, made the disclosure during a hearing in the “ComEd Four” case, where McClain and three others were convicted earlier this year in a scheme to bribe Madigan to help the utility’s legislative agenda in Springfield.
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