Former House Speaker and convicted felon Mike Madigan asked to be allowed to continue caring for his ailing wife during the appeal of his over seven-year sentence in a Federal prison.
Judge John Blakey said, “No.”
In a forty-four page opinion he ruled “Madigan failed to raise a ‘substantial’ question of law that would result in a reversal or new trial on all counts for which the former speaker faces imprisonment in two months,” according to WBEZ.
“‘The fate of Madigan’s entire motion’ actually rides on ‘routine, and meritless’ objections to his wire fraud convictions, the judge wrote, adding that the former speaker ‘clings to false hope.’…
“Under the law, Madigan needed to convince the judge that his appeal raises a substantial question of law or fact that could result in reversal or a new trial, a sentence of no prison time or a prison sentence he’d serve in less time needed to deal with his appeal.”
