In state news, the former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health has been fined $150,000 for violating a state anti-corruption law.
Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led the state health policy during the COVID 19 pandemic, will pay the fine for violating the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act “revolving door” provision in 2022,when she accepted a job as CEO of a Chicago hospital. Reports say Dr. Ezike admitted to state investigators she was guilty of the violation. The hospital received over $4 million in grants from the Illinois Department of Public Health the year before she left and was the subject of of IDPH regulation.
Attorneys for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan rested their case Thursday, marking the beginning of the end of Madigan’s corruption trial.
Madigan faces 23 counts of bribery, racketeering, extortion and other corruption charges.
Published reports indicated three days of closing arguments are scheduled for this Wednesday, and the jury could begin deliberations the week of January 27th.
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