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
The Democrats get caught breaking federal laws all the time and nothing happens....
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..."
Indictment, which is odd, since it mentions his teaching career PRE politics... https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2089603/hastert-indictment.pdf
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. :)
Now we know why he defended William Jefferson, D-LA, when he was indicted. They’re all dirty.
Bye Bye Dennis!
Blood in the water. I give it 24 hours before the press reports the nature of these “prior bad acts”.
Basically, he was withdrawing his own money, but since it's now The King's Money, if you don't do it EXACTLY the way The King tells you to, then it's a crime.
Secondly, he was stupid enough to talk to the Fibbies, who are always too busy to prosecute REAL felons like Hillary Clinton and Lois Lerner.
Keep it next to your race card!73 year old Hastert agreed to pay someone 3.5 million in cash to cover up past misconduct and then lied to the FBI about this.
What a mess!
Whether Hastert is guilty, or not, talking to the FBI was a big mistake. There is never an advantage to talking to the cops or the feds unless you are an actual victim; and even then it may not be wise.