My gut feeling is that Hastert was not the exception in DC.
Not by a long shot.
Wasn’t there some kind of scandal with some savings and loan thing connected with the government and kidnapping/raping little boys?
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.
Used to be a mature readers DC Comic called Hellblazer, and one of the things Jamie Delano invented was a Caligula Club for the rich and powerful, where they get to unwind, drink a little human blood, watch shaved cats fighting in a glass cage, go upstairs and get ‘serviced’ by members of the staff, do some coke...