Ex-Speaker Michael Madigan’s pension payments balloon as judge grants defense until next year to file motions in racketeering case – Chicago Tribune*

But while the case works its way through court, Madigan will continue to collect more than $12,400 per month from his state pension, a development one good government advocate said represented an “example of how out-of-whack the pension system is in Illinois.”

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PlunkYourMagicTwangerFroggy
1 year ago

He will never go to trial. Too old, too sick or he will die before trial.

Old Joe
1 year ago

He ought to be making license plates

Fed Up Taxpayer
1 year ago

Isn’t there an executive order for that?

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