Posted on 05/28/2015 3:45:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hassert was a wrestling Coach wasn’t he?
Perhaps he buggered some kid...what ever it is he wanted it kept quiet alot.
On Thursdays:)
I hate to see this. I hope he is innocent.
As for the structuring rule, it is a major pain for banks. The banks can be fined if they fail to report and the responsibility falls on young tellers who are scared to death they will mess up. If they mess up they are immediately fired. I understand the point, but I wonder if they really catch much criminal activity with it or if they are just looking to collect fines and terrorize people with it.
That said, the law is the law and foolish is anyone who tries to work around it. Usually it’s just someone who sold a car for cash or is buying one....something like that. What they want to catch are cash transactions connected to illegal activity be it drug traffic, tax evasion, or whatever. There should be a better way other than hanging so much policing on bank tellers.
If he’s guilty I’ll bet he wants his money back.
It sounds like the person he paid off did not keep his/her part of the bargain.
Plausibly, Hastert was paying hush money. If so, his natural line of defense is that he was a desperate victim of criminal extortion and acted without criminal intent in regard to the structuring.
I recall Livingston wanted to keep the Social Security surplus off budget ... and not go along with the fantasy accounting being used.
That was a threat to the establishment plan for bankruptcy. Whatever that means.
I still cannot figure out why the U.S. establishment wants to bankrupt their own country. the people who are not leftists, that is.
What was he being blackmailed for?
RE: What was he being blackmailed for?
THAT my friend is the unanswered question in this report.
We shall know in due time I guess.
After hearing the deats of this I’m not sure how this would qualify as “corruption” (though he was corrupt in office this does not appear to be related in any way). The government is pissed he ‘violated’ IRS reporting BS in withdrawing his own money.
I am very curious who he’s paying off and why (sexual misdeed?) but absent the formal accusation by someone that Hastert committed some crime against them it’s not really any concern of the FBI.
Yup, he had a state championship squad. He coached my son when he was a freshman, his first year of wrestling.
Not having experience, he spent the year as Hastert's "bitch", as he puts it, getting whipped by the older guys.
I'll tell you exactly what happened here. The NSA tipped off the FBI with illegal information.
Just think of all the things the NSA has on you, considering that there are so many laws now on the books that the average person arguably commits three felonies a day.
http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx
Based on what I read from the Wall Street Journal today... STRUCTURING your withdrawals is considered ILLEGAL.
Hastert and his buddies can blame themselves for not repealing this law. It has come back to bite HIM specifically.
The purpose of the structuring law is to enable feral government theft.
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