{"id":88620,"date":"2025-07-24T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88620\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:32:10","slug":"michael-mcclain-former-madigan-confidant-to-be-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88620\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael McClain, former Madigan confidant, to be sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gettyimages-2199562083-e1753358007920.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Lobbyist Michael McClain gives a thumbs up while leaving Dirksen Courthouse after Michael Madigan was convicted of bribery conspiracy in a landmark trial in Chicago on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Audrey Richardson\/Chicago Tribune\/Tribune News Service  <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; Michael McClain, a former friend and confidant of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/people\/michael-madigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Michael Madigan<\/a>, is set to be sentenced today.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">McClain was part of the ComEd Four who were all found guilty of arranging jobs, contracts and money for allies of Madigan.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Federal prosecutors asked that Madigan be sentenced to six years in prison, but McClain&#8217;s attorneys asked for probation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">They said he has serious health concerns which would get worse behind bars.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Federal prosecutors are seeking a 15-month prison sentence for Jay Doherty, another member of the ComEd Four.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">So far, the judge has handed an 18-month prison sentence to former ComEd lobbyist John Hooker and two years to ex-ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article came from previous FOX 32 reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/people\/michael-madigan\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Madigan<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Lobbyist Michael McClain gives a thumbs up while leaving Dirksen Courthouse after Michael Madigan was convicted of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,59394,50,3546,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-88620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-michael-madigan","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-people","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114908230026936579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}