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Nearly 60 years after earning his law degree, imprisoned former House Speaker Michael Madigan was formally disbarred this week in a one-paragraph notice buried in a monthly list of attorney discipline from around the state.

Madigan, the notice from the Illinois Supreme Court stated, was disbarred by his own consent following his conviction in February on federal corruption charges, including “conspiring with others to defraud the people of Illinois of their intangible right to his honest services through bribery and false and fraudulent pretenses.”

Attorneys who are disbarred by consent typically have agreed to strike their names from the roll of attorneys in the face of pending disciplinary charges before the Illinois Attorney Registration a

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