Danny Solis

‘You know why I’m interested’: Wiretaps, secretly recorded videos show Madigan recruiting business to his law firm

November 27, 2024 | By Hannah Meisel, Capitol News Illinois

SPRINGFIELD – For the second time in seven months, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called up Chicago Alderman Danny Solis after reading about a proposed real estate development in the alderman’s ward. “Danny, I think there’s a, a proposed development in – it’s called Peoria Park,” Madigan said in the January 2018 call, apparently conflating…

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Ex-Chicago alderman Solis, who secretly recorded Madigan for FBI, takes witness stand

November 23, 2024 | By Hannah Meisel, Capitol News Illinois

CHICAGO – It’s been a month since the jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial last heard the name of star government witness Danny Solis during opening statements. The government’s brief explanation that the ex-Chicago alderman agreed to cooperate with the FBI after “abusing his own office” – and the defense’s…

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