Jurors in the perjury trial of Tim Mapes, the ousted chief of staff for Democratic ex-Speaker Michael Madigan, will not hear the name of a onetime campaign aide who accused a longtime Madigan lieutenant of sexual harassment, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Tim Mapes, center, former chief of staff to House Speaker Michael Madigan, arrives at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Aug. 7, 2023, for the first day of his trial to face federal perjury charges.
According to prosecutors, Mapes lied repeatedly in his March 31, 2021, grand jury testimony in an ill-fated attempt to protect his longtime boss, claiming he couldn’t recall anything relevant about Madigan’s relationship with longtime confidante Michael McClain. Regardless, the Mapes defense team successfully sought to block the name of whistleblower Alaina Hampton from the trial, viewing it as prejudicial. Hampton was involved in a high-profile 2018 scandal in which she accused Madigan lieutenant Kevin Quinn of sexual harassment.
For Madigan, 2018 was a year of reckoning with the #MeToo movement as he ended up separating several allegedly misbehaving allies from his political and government organizations, including Mapes. In a written order, Kness ruled against Mapes’ request to block a conversation withMcClain, a longtime Madigan confident, about an alleged legislative attempt to transfer state-owned property in Chinatown to the city of Chicago as part of a scheme designed to bring business to Madigan’s property tax law firm.
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