The FBI executed a search warrant last month at the home of a former top political operative for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, according to a report.
It was unclear what federal agents were looking for or what they found in the raid on the Far South Side home of Kevin Quinn, according to the Chicago Tribune.
It also was not clear whether the feds’ investigation was related to any of Quinn’s work with Madigan’s political organization.
Quinn, whose older brother is Chicago Ald. Marty Quinn (13th), has not been charged with a crime.
Madigan fired Kevin Quinn in February 2018, the day before political consultant Alaina Hampton went public with accusations that Quinn stalked her with barrages of unwanted text messages and phone calls in pursuit of a romantic and sexual relationship.
At the time, Madigan called Hampton “a courageous woman” for bringing the allegations to his attention. The accusations rocked Madigan’s political organization in one of the most damaging #MeToo allegations to hit Illinois politics.
Since then, Hampton has filed a federal lawsuit against the powerful Illinois House speaker’s political committee and the state Democratic party, accusing Madigan of not doing enough to stop Quinn from harassing her.
Among many of his rebuttals laid out in a 14-page account of his “truth” about the allegations, Kevin Quinn said he believed he was actually fired because of a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge stemming from what he called a “nasty and bitter divorce” — not Hampton’s allegations.
Kevin Quinn’s brother, Marty Quinn, saw his share of the scandal when he was accused of playing a pivotal go-between role between his brother and Hampton. She accused Marty Quinn, her political mentor, of choosing to “protect Kevin instead of me,” giving her no choice but to leave Madigan’s political organization.
Meanwhile, in January, a 19-year-old DePaul University freshman trying to unseat Marty Quinn filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing him and Madigan of using fraud and intimidation to try to muscle the student off the ballot.
