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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted On Federal Charges (indictment linked)
BuzzFeed ^ | May 28, 2015 | John Stanton

Posted on 05/28/2015 2:34:08 PM PDT by jazusamo

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has indicted former House Speaker Dennis Hastert on reporting evasion charges and lying to the FBI as part of an effort to pay off victims of “prior bad acts.”

In an indictment handed down in the District Court of Northern Illinois, the Department of Justice and IRS charged Hastert, 73, with illegally transferring funds in an effort to avoid detection by the IRS, a scheme known as “structuring.”

In the indictment, Hastert is accused of agreeing to pay one individual $3.5 million.

Although the indictment specifies neither the “bad acts” nor the victims, sources said they could be from before Hastert, who is now a lobbyist in Washington, entered politics in 1980.

Hastert spent 20 years in the House representing Illinois, and was elected Speaker of the House in 1999 after former Speaker Newt Gingrich retired and the heir-apparent, former Rep. Bob Livingston, abruptly retired amidst charges he had carried on inappropriate sexual affairs.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: allarecriminals; allarefelons; bananarepublic; dennishastert; doj; fbi; hastert; hastertindicted; illinois; indictment; irs; tyranny
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1 posted on 05/28/2015 2:34:08 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

I bet IL politicians lead the way in corruption of all the states!


2 posted on 05/28/2015 2:35:32 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: jazusamo

“In an indictment handed down in the District Court of Northern Illinois, the Department of Justice and IRS charged Hastert, 73, with illegally transferring funds in an effort to avoid detection by the IRS, a scheme known as “structuring.”

In the indictment, Hastert is accused of agreeing to pay one individual $3.5 million.

Although the indictment specifies neither the “bad acts” nor the victims, sources said they could be from before Hastert, who is now a lobbyist in Washington, entered politics in 1980.”


3 posted on 05/28/2015 2:36:32 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: jazusamo

Just when he was putting his life back together ...


4 posted on 05/28/2015 2:36:34 PM PDT by x
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To: jazusamo

Dennie is being Lynched

time to get the ropes out for her


5 posted on 05/28/2015 2:37:15 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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I'm sure they will go after Al Sharpton next.......(sarcasm off).
6 posted on 05/28/2015 2:38:44 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: bert

This is leftist warning...


7 posted on 05/28/2015 2:38:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: bert

That’s possible but this had to be Holder’s doing, Lynch just put the finishing touches on it.


8 posted on 05/28/2015 2:40:35 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

The Democrats get caught breaking federal laws all the time and nothing happens....


9 posted on 05/28/2015 2:43:24 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: bert

Maybe he’s just paying for stupidity. It takes a special kind of idiot to put himself in a position where he’d be charged with lying to the FBI, it would seem to me.


10 posted on 05/28/2015 2:44:01 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ( "It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Enlightened1

Yep, being a Dem is like having a get out of indictment card.


11 posted on 05/28/2015 2:45:46 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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12 posted on 05/28/2015 2:47:50 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo
Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have not only exploded in number, but, along with countless regulatory provisions, have also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how the federal criminal justice system has become dangerously disconnected from common law traditions of due process and fair notice of the law's expectations, enabling prosecutors to pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior.The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to''white collar criminals,'' state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the continued functioning and integrity of our constitutional democracy hang in the balance.

And, to paraphrase Galileo:

"And yet Hillary still has not been prosecuted..."

13 posted on 05/28/2015 2:49:08 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Alberta's Child

so, you’ve convicted him all ready


14 posted on 05/28/2015 2:50:49 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: jazusamo

Indictment, which is odd, since it mentions his teaching career PRE politics... https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2089603/hastert-indictment.pdf


15 posted on 05/28/2015 2:52:46 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: kiryandil
Yep, and it'll be a surprise if Hillary's ever prosecuted.
16 posted on 05/28/2015 2:53:44 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: bert
And you've exonerated him already.

I haven't determined one way or another about the veracity of these charges, but I have seen enough stories about wretched, corrupt scum among the political leaders in Illinois -- Democrat and Republican alike -- that would never just assume that the guy is innocent.

17 posted on 05/28/2015 2:55:00 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ( "It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: PghBaldy

If even a fraction of what is contained in that indictment is true, then Hastert really comes off looking like a two-bit hack with an IQ around room temperature.


18 posted on 05/28/2015 2:57:52 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ( "It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: jazusamo
Let this be a warning McConnell, Bonhner, and all Washington Republicans.. This could will happen to you. Hastert's crimes include "cash withdrawals 'as possible structuring of currency transactions to evade the reporting requirements' . . . [and there's] numerous scandals and controversies, including the political fight over Terri Schiavo". He must have been against killing her if his actions are being used against him as part of criminal prosecution by the Obama-Holder-Lynch Dept of Just Us mob.
19 posted on 05/28/2015 2:58:04 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: jazusamo
No legal brain here but on first read it sounds as if Hastert was being blackmailed? Instead of reporting the incident to LEO, he paid off ‘Individual A.’

And feds went after Hastert instead of person doing the shakedown who probably got some sort of immunity to turn.

**SPECULATION ONLY**
Because of wording ‘past misconduct’ of Hastert to Individual A who has known Hastert most of his/her life, it sounds as if it was misconduct of a personal nature, not political.

Maybe something which happened while he was a teacher/coach. Ripe for imagination.


Mmmm. Stepping back I wonder if this and the FIFA charges signal that Lynch might be going after cases put on the back burner for one reason or another.

I almost hope that is the case because maybe there will be lots of indictments ready to roll? Makes me feel warm & fuzzy just thinking about it even if is a pipe dream. :)

20 posted on 05/28/2015 3:00:22 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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