{"id":1923943,"date":"2023-05-04T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/caught-off-base-illinois-lobbyists-bribery-convictions-stop-political-softball-game-put-on-by-lobbyists\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T02:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T06:45:10","slug":"caught-off-base-illinois-lobbyists-bribery-convictions-stop-political-softball-game-put-on-by-lobbyists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/caught-off-base-illinois-lobbyists-bribery-convictions-stop-political-softball-game-put-on-by-lobbyists\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois lobbyists&#8217; bribery convictions halt their political softball game."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcaught-off-base-illinois-lobbyists-bribery-convictions-stop-political-softball-game-put-on-by-lobbyists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923943&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Caught Off Base: Illinois Lobbyists' Bribery Convictions Stop Political Softball Game Put on by Lobbyists\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/dem-donor-funding-trump-rape-lawsuit-visited-jeffrey-epsteins-pedophile-island\" data-post-url id=\"print-1727835\">\n<div>\n<h2>A Shocking Bribery Scheme Halts Illinois Lawmakers&#8217; Softball Game<\/h2>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1521747116042-5a810fda9664?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxzZWFyY2h8Mnx8c29mdHdhcmUlMjBnYW1lfGVufDB8fDB8fA%3D%3D&#038;ixlib=rb-1.2.1&#038;w=1000&#038;q=80\" alt=\"Illinois lawmakers' <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-passes-bill-requiring-national-anthem-to-be-played-before-sporting-events\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Passes Bill Requiring National Anthem To Be Played Before Sporting Events\">softball game<\/a>&#8220;><figcaption>Disgraced ex-Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan (D.) and a batter at Illinois pols&#8217; softball game \/ Getty Images and @DonHarmonIL Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It was supposed to be a fun day of softball for Illinois state lawmakers, but it quickly turned into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-too-much-nudity-sex-and-violence-in-euphoria-season-2-reviewers-say-of-racy-teen-drama\/\" title=\"\u2018Far Too Much Nudity, Sex, And Violence\u2019 In Euphoria Season 2, Reviewers Say Of Racy Teen Drama\">shocking scene<\/a> when news broke that four people had been convicted of bribing former Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan (D.).<\/p>\n<p>During warm-ups, Illinois Senate president Don Harmon (D.) was alerted that a federal court in Chicago had convicted four defendants associated with ComEd, the state&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wind-farms-guilty-of-killing-150-eagles-as-joe-biden-pushes-for-more-woke-renewables\/\" title=\"Wind Farms Guilty of Killing 150+ Eagles as Joe Biden Pushes for More Woke Renewables\">largest utility company<\/a>. The convicted individuals arranged to pay more than $1 million to Madigan in exchange for his support for special perks for ComEd.<\/p>\n<p>The softball game was put on by lobbyists, who did everything from &#8220;getting the food truck that served barbecue and fries to footing the bill for drinks,&#8221; according to <i>Politico<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Madigan, once an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/caught-off-base-illinois-lobbyists-bribery-convictions-stop-political-softball-game-put-on-by-lobbyists\/\" title=\"Illinois lobbyists' bribery convictions halt their political softball game.\">enormously powerful figure<\/a> in Illinois politics and a close ally of Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D.), had a rapid fall from grace after news broke of the bribery scandal. He resigned from the House in 2021 after fellow Democrats withdrew support for his speakership. While Madigan himself was not charged in the latest case, he is facing a separate trial for bribery and other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-chinese-troops-on-canadian-soil-during-military-exercises\/\" title=\"Confirmed: Chinese Troops on Canadian Soil During Military Exercises\">shocking revelation<\/a>, Illinois&#8217;s legislature under Harmon&#8217;s leadership is seeing &#8220;no new bills&#8221; to &#8220;tighten ethics rules,&#8221; <i>Politico<\/i> reported. The legislature will also probably not see any ethics legislation before it ends its session.<\/p>\n<p>Madigan&#8217;s corruption trial is set to begin in April 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court convicted four people of bribing ex-Illinois House speaker Disgraced ex-Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan (D.) and a batter at Illinois pols&#8217; softball game \/ Getty Images and @DonHarmonIL Twitter Illinois state lawmakers&#8217; annual softball game unexpectedly stopped Tuesday when news broke that a federal court in Chicago had convicted four people in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1923944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[20427,13802,6528,10485,6413,4527,3753,25770],"class_list":["post-1923943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-bribery","tag-convictions","tag-game","tag-halt","tag-illinois","tag-lobbyists","tag-political","tag-softball"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}