[Jack Black]

It's a banking regulation that says that it's illegal to take money out of or put money into a bank in under $10,000 increments if the intent of doing so is to evade the mandatory reporting of transactions involving over $10,000 to the Treasury.

That's not exactly "wire transfer", but maybe you were just using shorthand.

[pepsionice]

I would suggest this....whoever was blackmailing him....is in hot water with IRS now and will have to report the ‘income’. As much as they wanted to screw over Hastert and get at his ‘loot’.....they will have to face some consequences.