Feds Have 90,000 Documents and Calls on Former Madigan Chief of Staff
Tim Mapes, the longtime Chief of Staff to former House Speaker Michael Madigan, faces a mountain of evidence in his upcoming criminal case.
Federal prosecutors say they have 90,000 documents and secret recordings in evidence against Tim Mapes, the longtime Chief of Staff to former House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Via the Chicago Tribune:
At a telephonic status hearing Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Julia Schwartz said the government sent Mapes’ defense team an initial batch of “intercepted communications and other records” on June 8.
“The next production will be voluminous,” Schwartz told U.S. District Judge John Lee. “We anticipate approximately 90,000 documents as well as additional communications and recordings.”
She said the second, larger batch of discovery should be sent within the next two weeks.
An 11-page indictment alleged Mapes repeatedly lied during a March 31 appearance before the grand jury when asked about Madigan’s relationship with his longtime confidant Michael McClain, who was charged in November with orchestrating the ComEd bribery scheme.
Obviously, it’s hard to imagine none of those documents relate to the former Speaker.