Indictment of High-Paid RINO Lobbyist Hastert, Former Speaker of the House, Related to Homosexual Molestation of Student
The indictment of former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert was triggered by an effort he made to hide payments of hush money to a male student he allegedly sexually molested decades ago, a federal law enforcement official said Friday.
The indictment asserts that the acts Hastert wanted to conceal date to a time when he was a teacher and coach in Illinois before entering politics in the early 1980s, the official said. Authorities said the alleged victim, who has spoken with law enforcement officials, was one of Hastert’s students.
Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in House history, is not expected to face molestation charges because authorities don’t think they have enough evidence to bring a case against him, a law enforcement official said.
A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted the former speaker, 73, Thursday on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed person to cover up “past misconduct.” The alleged victim is that person, the official said.
The case has riveted and shocked Washington, where Hastert has been a high-paid lobbyist since his 2007 retirement from Congress. (Read more from “Hastert Indictment Is Related to Homosexual Molestation of Student” HERE)
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