Federal sources: Denny Hastert was paying someone off to conceal past sexual...
Cover up. I wonder what evidence the alleged extorter has, so many years later, to scare Hastert enough that he’d have been willing in 2010 to pay $3 million to try to shut him up. The statute of...
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Scandals. If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also then hiding a...
View ArticleIs Denny Hastert being railroaded?
Doing the crime and doing the time I haven’t really gotten into the current Denny Hastert flap here because AP has been on top of it, but the narrative of the story seems to be shifting pretty rapidly...
View ArticleSo evading government scrutiny is a crime. Why?
We're always watching Yesterday I started to delve into the Dennis Hastert case, paying particular attention to the specific crimes with which the former Speaker is being charged. But even after I...
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"Who is ever going to believe me?" It took 20 years for Jolene Reinboldt to have anyone take her story seriously. After her brother Steve died of AIDS in 1995, she was shocked to see Dennis Hastert,...
View ArticleFormer Speaker Hastert sentenced to 15 months in prison
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for trying to conceal hush payments to children he sexually molested while he was a high school coach. Scott Cross, one of...
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