Attorney general: Ex-Speaker Mike Madigan’s chief of staff should forfeit state pension – Chicago Tribune*

The legal question before the attorney general’s office was whether Timothy Mapes should lose his pension permanently because his grand jury testimony came nearly three years after he was ousted from Madigan’s government and political organizations in 2018 amid a sexual harassment scandal. Under state law, a felony conviction triggers the loss of a state pension only if the crime in question was connected to a person’s government job.