Column: Man who said he didn’t know too much, Tim Mapes is up for sentencing – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: “'Tim Mapes (top aide to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan) accepts the jury’s verdict — though he disagrees with it and continues to maintain his innocence,' his lawyers stated in their sentencing memorandum...But they also made an odd — bordering on weird — request, that Mapes be sentenced to 'time served.' That would be a credible request if Mapes had actually served any appreciable time in custody prior to his conviction. But he has not. A spokesman for the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s office speculated that Mapes’ lawyers are referring to a few hours he spent 'being processed' by U.S. marshals after his indictment. Being sentenced to 'time served' with no real time served would, of course, be the perfect political metaphor for corruption in Illinois."
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Tom Paine's Ghost
2 years ago

Mapes, Madigan, Mclain and Burke all need to go to anal rape prison.

Pensions Paid First
2 years ago

Seek help. You’re losing your humanity.

debtsor
2 years ago

You should see what Xi has done to ‘corrupt’ politicians.

Da Judge
2 years ago

IMO da Feds should offer all of them this deal.

No prison time but a televised public flogging at Daley Plaza.

Maybe then we can stop the corrupt Dems in Illinois.

debtsor
2 years ago

Yes, but who cares. These people are all well past retirement age and political usefulness. The political machines they created were co-opted and then morphed into the progressive powerhouse that it is today. Mapes, Madigan, Mclain and Burke are irrelevant political dinosaurs. It would be best to lock them up and never forget about them again. Removing these people and their lieutenants in retrospect was kind of a false victory, because the BIPOC progressives that replaced them have been 10x worse.

Ex Illini
2 years ago

The loyalty that these individuals have to Madigan makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Here’s a man, who despite being fully immune from prosecution, chose to lie! Give him the maximum sentence.

debtsor
2 years ago
Reply to  Ex Illini

He likely lied because he was expecting a payoff on the back end.

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