Posted on 05/29/2015 7:06:44 PM PDT by bimboeruption
dicted former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was paying a former student from Yorkville, Ill., to conceal his alleged sexual abuse of the youth that took place while Hastert was a teacher and wrestling coach at a high school there, federal law enforcement officials said Friday.
A top official, who would not be identified speaking about the federal charges in Chicago, said investigators also spoke with a second person who raised similar allegations that corroborated what the student said.
The second person was not being paid by Hastert, the official said.
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert indicted Federal prosecutors have announced bank-related charges against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. The disclosures followed Thursday’s federal indictment against Hastert on suspicion of lying to the FBI about the reasons he made large cash withdrawals, which were allegedly used to buy the man’s silence.
A top federal law enforcement official, who would not be identified speaking about the federal charges, said “Individual A” -- as the unnamed acquittance is described in the indictment -- was a male whom Hastert knew prior to his tenure in Congress.
“It goes back a long way, back to then,” the official said. “It has nothing to do with public corruption or a corruption scandal. Or to his time in office.” Thursday’s indictment described the misconduct “against Individual A” as having “occurred years earlier,” noting that Hastert had known the person “most of Individual A’s life.”
When asked about the nature of Hastert’s alleged misconduct, the law enforcement official said, “It was sex.’’
Hastert has not responded to requests for comment. A representative of the lobbying firm where he had worked, Dickstein Shapiro, declined to comment.
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Sadly, I believe you’re right. These predators don’t just stop with one victim. There would be countless others. The media and the left are gonna exploit this to the fullest and can’t you see these people licking their lips and asking the GOP candidates their reaction to this. Don’t think it won’t happen.
It is a big evil. Trying to get financial gain for his earlier “services” is also evil.
Norm, I knew you were being sarcastic and I agree with you on the “lesser evil” theory.
Good. Its a simple answer.
“Hassert was wrong/bad/engaged in a liberal supported activity possible criminal. I do not support him in any way”
If a GOPe cant say that, let the MSM eat them alive. Better for America that they are outed.
The reasosn to report him rather than blackmail him are many.
1. Blackmail is illegal.
2. You stop his opportunity to do it again.
3. You help other victims come forward.
I just saw this term on another site: GOPedophile
I like it and will use when appropriate.
Not defending anything he did.
But, that was at least 34 years ago. He isn’t being charged with the sex crimes.
He is being charged with lying to investigators about why he was LEGALLY taking large sums of money out of his account.
“Lesser evils” plague us because we have completely forgotten about greater goods.
Evil has hypnotized too many of us to the point that we are fighting just like it does.
That’s a dandy scheme — if the goal is to sweep everything to hell.
Ah, the votes that counted the most were not November votes, but the ones we cast either for heaven or hell every day.
By inviting hell, we get hell. By inviting heaven, we get heaven.
It’s easy enough for children to understand, but they are not as “sophisticated” as grownups.
They weren’t kids at the time Clinton raped them, were they?
The rape of a grown woman is horrendous, but the rape of a kid is a million times worse in my book.
He got a coaching supplement in addition to his regular teacher's pay.
Satan is a deceiver. He fools all of us multiple times...until we get the discernment of the Holy Spirit.
I shoulda been a coach.
Sure. They prototyped it on Bill Cosby.
“By long training accustomed to discerning good from evil.”
Notice that you have to let God’s goodness into your picture, or else there is nothing to work with here.
yeah, Hastert is like that Penn State guy, Jerry Sandusky. Sweaty guys in tight wrestling outfits must be hard to resist for a homo perv.
Outside of the obvious ICK Factor, I just love the part that he had to explain to the FBI why he was taking HIS OWN MONEY out of the Bank.
The idiotic Law says Transactions over $10,000 have to be “reported”, but if you take less out, you’re a Suspect. It isn’t the Government’s Business what I choose to do with my Property, or is it? Drip, drip, drip, there goes Freedom.
Why people don’t have a problem with that little “1984” type Law never ceases to amaze me.
I know the victims of child molesters.
$3 million is a good start for compensation for such evil. I don’t care what party they work for.
God is clearly damning our country for our sins.
And there are weird characteristics of Satan, that you begin to notice in some people. For example, a mind fixed on damnation.
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