Posted on 04/08/2016 8:12:20 PM PDT by TroutStalker
CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors on Friday for the first time provided details of sexual abuse allegations against J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House, asserting that he molested at least four boys, as young as 14, when he worked as a high school wrestling coach decades ago.
Mr. Hastert, 74, is not charged with the incidents of abuse because of statutes of limitation, prosecutors said, but he was accused last year of illegally structuring bank withdrawals for money he was paying to one of his victims in an effort to hide the abuse. He pleaded guilty in October to the banking violation, and suffered a stroke in November while awaiting sentencing, now set for later this month.
According to a court filing by prosecutors late Friday laying out their sentencing considerations, Mr. Hastert, a popular coach in a small Illinois town in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, gave one boy a massage in the locker room, then performed an unspecified sex act on him. Another boy, Stephen Reinboldt, who died in 1995, was sexually abused by Mr. Hastert throughout high school in the late 1960s and early 1970s, his sister and others told the prosecutors. And prosecutors said Mr. Hastert had massaged another boy’s groin area after asking the boy to stay in his hotel room during a wrestling camp.
“Defendant used his position of trust as a teacher and coach to touch a child’s genitals and then undress and ask the child for a back massage in a motel room,” the prosecutors wrote of that incident. “There is no ambiguity; defendant sexually abused Individual A.”
Prosecutors said Mr. Hastert’s life had been “marred by stunning hypocrisy.”
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Well, dragnet2, that is pretty much the way things work whether you are a ditch digger, a small business entrepreneur, a policeman, a politician, a judge or just a plain old husband or wife, father or mother. All are subject to the consequences of their actions, and all those under their authority can and often do suffer from those consequences. The greater the authority the greater the need to act responsibly, which is a lesson that seemingly needs to be relearned by far too many today, not least of which is all those running for the presidency.
So, what exactly your beef is I don’t understand.
Well then, Mr. Hastert is, in a certain sense, lucky. Now all he will have to live with is his conscience. But that might be the hardest punishment of all.
I’m surprised anyone still thinks there’s a difference between the two parties. Kabuki theater to keep us playing their game.
Was that part of those conservative principles you’re talking about?
Well, dragnet2, that is pretty much the way things work whether you are a ditch digger, a small business entrepreneur, a policeman, a politician, a judge or just a plain old husband or wife, father or mother.
Really? Ya think anyone buys your bull sh*t?
Unlike ditch diggers, do those in the Senate and Congress not take an oath? Did you ever read it?
This is the biggest load of BS I've seen on this forum in the past 24 hours. Congratulations.
Really? Your insulting remarks are taken but rejected. Bo’s executed the largest welfare increase in 50 years by stealing out healthcare industry and not a single republican voted for this crime. Not one. So tell me your story about no difference. Do you honestly think that a 74 year old commie rat is the same as Ted Cruz?
What an intemperate fool you are. If you read what I wrote instead of just going off you would see that we are not really in disagreement.
As far as oaths go, I might know a little more about such things than you think, even though, obviously, you know so very much more than most.
Or do you think that only certain people should be held responsible for their actions and others not? Only oath takers? Yourself excepted, perhaps?
Those with small authority can only hurt a few others. Those with great authority, like Hastert, can, as you say, hurt millions. No argument. I said essentially that. Our biggest problem today is not the Denny Hasterts of this country, but the millions and millions of irresponsible people, from ditch diggers to presidents, who don’t care about those whose lives can be hurt because of their misdeeds. We have bred a culture of irresponsibility.
EVERYONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEM ... EVERYONE!
TARP
Auto Bailouts
National Debt
Budget
Medicare Part D
No child left behind
Amnesty push
Amnesty-Reagan-
Patriot Act
Just a few...and people still want to be a Republican? Just voting to stop democrats hasn't fixed anything.
Nah, Hussein has that title. He’s married to a tranny.
If these charges are in fact true, Mr. Conservative Haster was not only compromising his position, the potential for compromising and undermining American and millions of Americas was very real.
In fact, we don't even know he this guy was blackmailed or if the country was compromised.
Great conservative values ya got there.
Get real.
Well, he could always get a job as the poster boy for NAMBLA, you know, the LGBT homosexual group that supports his kind of activity and seeks to decriminalize it.
Great conservative values ya got there.
What an intemperate fool you are.
And what a full blown con-job you're serving up. Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.
Take a course in remedial English, both reading and writing.
Bye.
Tell ya what I'll so slick, every time you respond with your BS con-job comments, I'll just repeat your own words.
If these charges are in fact true, Mr. Conservative Haster was not only compromising his position, the potential for compromising and undermining America and millions of Americas was very real. In fact, we don't even know he this guy was blackmailed or if the country was compromised. Great conservative values ya got there.
What an intemperate fool you are.
And what a full blown con-job you're serving up. Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.
Take a course in remedial English, both reading and writing.
Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit. And you defined this el perfecto.
So, your excuse to vote for Bernie or Hillary. And I suppose you support the Muslim faggot in they WH too?
[ Nick Bryant spent 7 yrs researching that because what he found was so disturbing. He heard HW Bush liked young black boys. That’s what I read. He also implicated many people in congress and higher ups in the cia leadership. I guess if you wanted to be in a high position in govt you need to prove your loyalty by exposing yourself to blackmail. Even the Rothschild, Hanvoers and Windsors visited Epstein’s pedophile island.
It’s a strange world... ]
A small tactical nuke a few hundred feet over bohemian grove during their annual “cremation of care” ceremony would go a long ways to cleaning out the rats nest in DC.
I agree.
Where have all these conservatives been for 27 years?
Where is all that conservatism we're now suddenly hearing about? Are decades of decline and deceit now considered the foundation of conservative values? This is election year fraud at it's best.
How so? A high school wrestling coach from the middle of Illinois? That's a long way from the Rockefellers and Whitneys.
But when I say this headline, I thought "WTF? President Dave Palmer? The Allstate guy? What the heck is going on?"
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