The Richard Madigan Affair is the story of a young investigative journalist, Jamie Stroud who has been assigned to write a piece on a local Chicago businessman who had been accused of inappropriate behavior with a school board member. As she begins her investigation murky details start to emerge about his life. Upon further investigation, this self-professed family values man appears to be heavily involved with less than savory characters including members of the Russian Mafia. The article she is writing becomes a 6 part series called Betrayal and tells the story of a man lured by greed, into the depraved world of murder, drugs, kidnap, corruption and money laundering.