Jury selection is underway this morning in the perjury trial of Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff for ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Mapes is accused of violating an immunity agreement by lying under oath.
Jury selection is underway in the perjury trial of Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff for ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who stands accused of violating an immunity agreement by lying under oath about the speaker and his longtime confidant Michael McClain.
But prosecutors claim he violated the terms of that agreement on March 31, 2021, when he allegedly lied to the grand jury about work McClain had performed for Madigan between 2017 and 2019. To secure a conviction, prosecutors must not only prove that Mapes’ testimony was false, but that he knew it was false and that it couldn’t be attributed to a “mistake, confusion or faulty memory.”
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