SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: The Mapes tapes...Grundy County Board Chair for running for Senate

August 18, 2023

Good morning, subscribers.

We dug through hours of wiretap tapes presented in the trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime Chief of Staff, Tim Mapes. More on that below.

I said early on it didn’t appear there was a “smoking gun” to prove Mapes was actively lying when he said he “couldn’t recall” numerous things during his …