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.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
I bet IL politicians lead the way in corruption of all the states!
“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.”
Just when he was putting his life back together ...
Dennie is being Lynched
time to get the ropes out for her
This is leftist warning...
That’s possible but this had to be Holder’s doing, Lynch just put the finishing touches on it.
The Democrats get caught breaking federal laws all the time and nothing happens....
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.
Yep, being a Dem is like having a get out of indictment card.
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..."
so, you’ve convicted him all ready
Indictment, which is odd, since it mentions his teaching career PRE politics... https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2089603/hastert-indictment.pdf
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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