An attorney for Michael Madigan's longtime chief of staff on Wednesday likened the top aide's 2021 visit to a federal grand jury to a high school reunion -- featuring a pop quiz in which failure results in a felony.
And, she said, the trial jury he now faces will not hear any direct evidence that Mapes knew and remembered the things he was asked about before the grand jury March 31, 2021. Federal prosecutors have charged Mapes with perjury, saying he lied on seven occasions during that visit to the grand jury. The questions on those occasions revolved around work that had been done by another Springfield insider, Michael McClain, for Madigan.
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