Tag: Scandals

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, listens to lawmakers during a House committee hearing at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Faced with an expected $3 billion budget hole from an expiring income tax increase, Illinois lawmakers are grappling with whether to raise taxes to avoid major cuts to schools and social services next year. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Illinois House speaker won’t testify in front of committee investigating ComEd bribery scandal

Washington Examiner · September 28, 2020 8:00 pm

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, listens to lawmakers during a House committee hearing at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Faced with an expected $3 billion budget hole from an expiring income tax increase, Illinois lawmakers are grappling with whether to raise taxes to avoid major cuts to schools and social services next year. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Officials allow Illinois lawmakers to investigate House speaker bribery scandal

Washington Examiner · September 16, 2020 11:00 pm

FILE - In this May 30, 2014 file photo, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, heads into his office at the state Capitol in Springfield Ill. National Republican legislative groups say eroding Democratic control in the Illinois House is a top goal this November. Officials from the Republican Legislative Campaign Committee and the Republican State Leadership Committee are having a conference in Colorado this week with the hope of eliminating House Speaker Michael Madigan's veto-proof majority, which the Chicago Democrat and Illinois Democratic Party chair holds by a one-vote margin. Supermajority status allows Democrats to pass politically difficult pieces of legislation without any Republican votes. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Committee meets Thursday to investigate Illinois House speaker’s role in ComEd patronage scandal

Washington Examiner · September 10, 2020 8:00 pm

Ohio lawmakers demand action on nuclear bailout bill amid corruption scandal

Washington Examiner · August 31, 2020 6:00 pm

‘Blinded and naive’: Liberty students claim culture of suppression under Falwell leadership

Nicholas Rowan · August 14, 2020 10:30 am

FILE - In this May 30, 2014 file photo, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, heads into his office at the state Capitol in Springfield Ill. National Republican legislative groups say eroding Democratic control in the Illinois House is a top goal this November. Officials from the Republican Legislative Campaign Committee and the Republican State Leadership Committee are having a conference in Colorado this week with the hope of eliminating House Speaker Michael Madigan's veto-proof majority, which the Chicago Democrat and Illinois Democratic Party chair holds by a one-vote margin. Supermajority status allows Democrats to pass politically difficult pieces of legislation without any Republican votes. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Illinois Democrats review options to take action against House speaker after patronage scandal

Washington Examiner · August 10, 2020 9:00 pm

FILE - In this May 30, 2014 file photo, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, heads into his office at the state Capitol in Springfield Ill. National Republican legislative groups say eroding Democratic control in the Illinois House is a top goal this November. Officials from the Republican Legislative Campaign Committee and the Republican State Leadership Committee are having a conference in Colorado this week with the hope of eliminating House Speaker Michael Madigan's veto-proof majority, which the Chicago Democrat and Illinois Democratic Party chair holds by a one-vote margin. Supermajority status allows Democrats to pass politically difficult pieces of legislation without any Republican votes. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Bipartisan calls for Illinois legislators to distance from House speaker’s political money amid patronage scandal

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2020 11:00 pm

Illinois lawmakers reconsider ComEd legislation after patronage scandal

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2020 2:00 pm

University of Kentucky fires entire cheerleading coaching staff amid allegations of hazing and nudity

Mica Soellner · May 20, 2020 3:18 pm

Holly Petraeus, left, David Petraeus, middle, and Paula Broadwell, right.

National Security

Infidelity professor says not ‘controversial’ to say Holly Petraeus uglier than husband’s mistress

Russ Read · December 19, 2019 10:25 pm

Holly Petraeus, left, David Petraeus, middle, and Paula Broadwell, right.

National Security

‘Bullying’: Petraeus friend Jill Kelley professors who pronounced wife uglier than mistress

Russ Read · December 19, 2019 8:37 pm

Prince Andrew is seen.

Meghan Markle 'horrified' by Prince Andrew's denial of Giuffre allegations in Epstein interview

Ellie Bufkin · November 23, 2019 3:26 am