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Inset top left: his Oct. 4, 2007 file photo shows Tim Mapes, chief of staff to Illinois House Speaker Madigan at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)/ Background: The Illinois State Capitol is seen during sunset in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)/Right: ap file photo Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Inset top left: This Oct. 4, 2007 file photo shows Tim Mapes, chief of staff to Illinois House Speaker Madigan, at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File). Background: The Illinois State Capitol is seen during sunset in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman). Right: AP file photo Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File).

Tim Mapes was the chief of staff to one of the more powerful politicians in Illinois, but after lying to a federal grand jury probing sprawling public corruption — even after he was granted immunity — a federal judge sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in prison this week.

U.S. District Judge John Knees expressed his dismay and disbelief to Mapes, 69, as he sentenced him at a federal courthouse in Chicago following his conviction on perjury and obstruction of justice charges by a jury last August. Prosecutors had granted him immunity just before he testified to a grand jury exploring bribery and racketeering schemes involving his boss, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Mapes had a clear path out of his legal troubles.

But instead of walking it, he perjured himself seven times, court records show.

“Perhaps this was out of some sense of loyalty. But if that’s the case, your loyalty was gravely misguided. Whatever compulsion you felt to protect [lobbyist] Michael McClain and the former speaker of the House, Mr. Madigan, as far as I can tell, it was not reciprocated in any way,” the judge told Mapes, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

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