OH MY!
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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Politicians are an evil lot.
According to several “insiders” I’ve read about over the years, pedophilia is rampant in Hollywood, DC & various religious organizations...not to mention Secret Societies of the rich & powerful global elite.
That’s the point. It’s a prerequisite to membership. That way they know you will stay loyal and not ‘spill the beans’.
They keep getting elected, promoted, elevated because of political expedience. They’re all someone’s useful idiot.
That Franklin scandal was one of those retarded satanic ritual abuse hysterias in the 80s like McMartin day care.
Total BS.
OH MY!
apples and oranges.
Your explanation makes sense, completely.
delenda est...
Makes one wonder if there is ANYONE of them left that is a true Patriot.
It’s truly... just sh*t through and through...
Call me what you may but I think probation is appropriate in this case. The man’s reputation and any legacy he may have had is gone. I seem to remember somewhere about a pound of flesh..its been extracted
What a POS.They need to throw the book at him so he will die in prison.
Makes you wonder how many more are waiting in the wings to take positions of leadership in the republican party?You just know he is not the only one.
Hes probably BENT
I read a book written by a Ted Kennedy's aid in the 80s. While Ted and the Dems were about corrupt and debauched as you would imagine it was the Republican behavior that shocked me. The entire system is worse than late roman empire and needs to be Purged.
You know the sumbitch was off the chain.
“Could become a gay icon as the highest ranking elected homosexual in history. Well, until Hillary wins in November.”
OK, that’s one...the Dems have dozens, in and out. In and out. Of the closet.
Is Roberts past the point where the odd Irish adoption of his kids can’t affect him as a point of blackmail?
No. They are still very young. To have them removed from the only home they’ve known would devastate them, ruin their lives. I don’t even know which country they’d be sent to. They originated in Ireland but they were adopted from Brazil, thus making their adoption fully illegal.
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