7th Circuit denies Mike Madigan’s bid to stay out of prison while he appeals corruption conviction- WJBC (Bloomington)

The Chicago-based appellate judges did not sign their order or explain their ruling Friday, but it affirms the decision from Madigan’s trial judge in August, who wrote that the ex-speaker’s “entire motion rides on routine, and meritless” objections and had “not come close” to meeting the “high burden” he’d need to argue to stay out of prison. “As such, he clings to false hope,” U.S. District Judge John Blakey wrote.