Tim Mapes, former aide to Speaker Michael Madigan, sentenced to 2 1/2 years for lying to federal grand jury
Tim Mapes, who for years served as the abrasive and sharp-tongued chief of staff to House Speaker Michael Madigan, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Monday for lying to a federal grand jury investigating his boss.
In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge John Kness said he struggled at a fundamental level to understand how Mapes found himself in this position.
“This is a very sad case to me because I don’t understand why you did what you did,” Kness said. “You were immunized in the grand jury and all you had to do was go in there and tell the truth.”
Kness likened it to the mafia concept of “omerta,” the concept “that you don’t rat on your friends.”
“You knew what you were doing when you went into the grand jury and you lied,” Kness said. “I don’t know why you did this. Perhaps this was out of some sense of loyalty, but if that’s the case your loyalty was greatly misguided.”
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