Posted on 04/27/2016 10:11:38 AM PDT by NRx
CHICAGO A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert to 15 months in federal prison a term above what even prosecutors had recommended and one that clearly takes into account the sexual abuse allegations that generated the criminal case against the Illinois Republican.
The sentencing marked an ignominious moment in the life of a man who was once a revered high school teacher and wrestling coach in Illinois and who ascended into the highest ranks of American politics. Even before the hearing, prosecutors had revealed in court filings how Hastert allegedly had molested or inappropriately touched five teenagers affiliated with the wrestling team he coached decades ago. U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin had indicated that he would consider that in handing down an appropriate punishment.
Hastert, reading from a prepared statement, told the judge that he was deeply ashamed to be in court. He acknowledged that he mistreated some of the athletes I coached.
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I don't mind a judge taking into account how bad a person is for other things they have done in sentencing him to a punishment that is legal under the law. The term he got is permitted by the laws he violated.
Who’s going to push that wheel chair up the ramp to hell?
This pervert, like Michel before him, is responsible for nothing being contested as the Democrats poked him in his cushy chest and said, ‘Just do it, Dumbo!’
He lifted the carpet while the Dems shoved the dirt under it.
What they had on him, as well as Michel, was probably the reason they kow-towed to the ‘opposition’.
This asshat should have been sentenced to prison for the rest of his unnatural life!
Maybe they’ll put him in a cell with a big guy named bubba.
Yep, I noticed the trend years ago.
Many normal people dont want to take the time to serve. The Sodomites seized on that. First they infiltrated the Psychological associations and declared themselves sane. Then one by one they have done the same with every major institution in America politics, entertainment, news, ect.
That biblical line, “Be sure your sins will find you out,” proved true for Mr. Hastert, long after he thought that he had hidden away the evidence. He probably wrote the law about withdrawing excess funds from one’s own account but must have gotten lax in his cover-up.
and granny Benghazi, who allowed four American Men to be murdered and butchered 3 1/2 years ago walks FREE...
but...
take an old man in a wheel chair, who had sex crimes forty plus years ago...and used HIS OWN MONEY to pay black mailers.goes to prison for 15 months...A man who served the United States in Congress for many years...
yep this Nation sure is strange.
by the way...why didn’t this black mailer bring up these sex crimes when they happened? just wondering...guess he felt he deserved the seven million or what ever he got was earned money...
and granny Benghazi could actually become POTUS...but I don’t think she will...SHE IS GOING TO GET TRUMPED, BIG TIME...LET’S ROLL VOTERS...
AGREE COMPLETELY.
THIS IS A SAD COUNTRY..
If there is a hierarchy, they infiltrate it.
WGN, Crains rush to get Hastert sentence all wrong
It looks like the error was a (typical) media snowball. I can tell you from personal experience that newspeople are among the laziest on the planet; from that perspective this is completely understandable.
They were going to give Hastert a 6 month sentence, but he asked for 12 more months if it could be served in the sodomite cell block.
How about LBJ? Another former school teacher who got rich on the public payroll. Virtually broke when he was elected to Congress; by the time he left the White House, ol’ “Landslide Lyndon” had holdings that included a huge ranch, radio and TV stations, making him a multi-millionaire. And he never spent a day in the private sector.
He did it first is no excuse. Manners seem to have completely disappeared in this despicable excuse for an election year. I was not trying to equate anyone with anyone. I was just calling for better manners. I am certainly bright enough to know exactly what I am doing.
Imagine Pat Quinn and Michael Madigan and John Cullerton and Adam Kinzinger and Nancy Boy Kirk and Aaron Schock and Little Dick Durbin and Tammy QuackQuack and Carol Mostly Fraud and a few dozen others in various federal hoosegows. It isn't hard to do. Maybe add Jim Edgar and Big Jim Thompson. Judy BaahBaah Toostinka (Toopinka?) cheated us by dying to escape such a just fate. The Rahmfather would also be a good candidate and we could then work our way through the C(r)ook County crooks, Alderthings, ward bosses, teachers' union thugs, educrats, pension triple dippers, etc. etc., etc. Would other fedcourt jurisdictions lend us a few tough judges to handle the plea bargains and trials and sentencings?
We can get this ball rolling once we have an American POTUS again and purge the InJustice Department. Tony Reczko? Obozo and Moochelle? The possibilities are endless, unfortunately. Illegal immigrants illegally registering and voting? Denizens of Chicago graveyards or the hacks who vote in their name? Once the prosecutions start the Illinois and Interstate highways near our borders will be clogged with stampeded fleeing Demonrats. THEN, if and only if, we can retake control of the GOP from the Combine, we can get a real handle on Illinois' problems.
Few of these rich, corrupted and powerful are black and so that won't be an issue. We can also deprive the R, C, and Ps of their "right" to vote once they are felons.
It never occurred to me that Hastert was like that. It’s just mind-boggling.
Total perversion but where the tax case against a Chicago mobster lead us naturally to.
He was never tried or convicted for anything else.. If you want a judge to consider a persons previous ills fine, but without being tried and convicted of those ills is a perversion.
Did Hastert deny the molestations? I think he apologized to the victims, didn’t he? Had he vehemently denied molesting those boys, maybe you would have a point. But he admitted it. Which is why he was paying the extortion to begin with.
“Just as a couple posters above have mentioned; how many homosexual republican (RINO) politicians are blackmailed because of their .. ahem.. proclivIties?”
I think this brings to total to three, Foley, Craig and now Hastert.
Of the three, Hastert is by far the sickest.
A child molester and members of Congress covered for him and made him their leader and second in line to the presidency.
Absolutely disgusting.
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