One of the nation's most powerful state legislators has for decades tended to shrug off the latest scandal involving Illinois politicians, but the sight of
FBI agents hauling bags of evidence from an office on the
Democratic side of the Capitol building this week may have startled the normally unflappable Mike Madigan.
Madigan, the longest-serving state House speaker in modern
American history and the head of the Democratic Party in Illinois, hasn't been accused of wrongdoing.
Court papers mistakenly unsealed in one case involving a powerful
Chicago City Council member even described a businessman wearing an FBI wire and secretly recording Madigan.