
A federal judge said Wednesday he intends to deny a bid to toss portions of the perjury indictment leveled in 2021 against Michael Madigan’s former chief of staff, keeping another public corruption trial on track for later this year.
Mapes served as chief of staff to Madigan, Illinois’ former House speaker, from 1991 until June 2018. Mapes was ousted amid a string of harassment allegations. Since May 2021, he has also been under indictment for allegedly lying to the grand jury that investigated Madigan, who now faces his own racketeering indictment.