When former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is arraigned by telephone next week on new federal conspiracy charges involving AT&T, someone will be conspicuously absent from the line.Madigan himself.That's because a federal judge on Wednesday granted an unusual request by Madigan's attorneys to waive his right to be present for the proceedings, where a formal not guilty plea will be entered on his behalf to a superseding racketeering indictment unveiled earlier this month.
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