Hastert Reportedly Paid Individual From His Past To Hide Sexual Misconduct

www.buzzfeed.com ^ | 05-29-2015 | John Stanton, Andrew Kaczynski, Evan McMorris-Santoro

[Oliviaforever]

Make sure to order lots of popcorn. This is going to be fun.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

If you take payoffs to keep silent about sexual misconduct toward you, is that kind of like prostitution after the fact?

[colorado tanker]

Figured it had to be something like this for him to be paying out that kind of money.

But why isn't it the blackmailer they are going after?

[Red Badger]

A witness...................

[CGASMIA68]

My 1st thought was this is extortion/blackmail he should just say OK it was in 75 and just like Bill and Hill in 75 ,”What difference does it make?”

[dead]

Throw the book at him, but let’s be honest, this is every weekend at the Kennedy’s.

[Red Badger]

"...He was kind of a slacker teacher.”

Just as he was a slacker Speaker.................

[RightWingNut]

Hastert need to become a Democrat. Then he could become president and be adored by the press.

[Red Badger]

He’d fit right in................

[CivilWarBrewing]

Wait a minute.. Why is the media focusing on his sexual preferences? I mean, are they HOMOPHOBIC or something? Where are the protesters showing their support for Hastert’s sexual freedom?

[TomGuy]

“He was a straight arrow, nothing was hidden,” Houle told BuzzFeed News

Uhhh. Something was hidden -- and it was apparently worth $3.5 MILLION to keep hidden.

[Starstruck]

Not defending or condoning Hastert, but why should a blackmailer have their name withheld?

[2nd Amendment]

A pansexual is a panpervert who is going to panhell in a panbasket unless they repent!

[Oliviaforever]

Denny always gave me the creeps.

The kind of creeps where I thought to myself, “Thank God he is only running Congress, and not a troop of Boy Scouts.”

[alancarp]

" Uhhh. Something was hidden -- and it was apparently worth $3.5 MILLION to keep hidden."

Agree completely: I dunno how much old Denny is worth, but that's a chunk of change. I have figured that we're talking about something in the range between "unknown illicit love child" and "serial serial killer" for those dollars.

[Red Badger]

Maybe he wasn’t a blackmailer. Maybe it was a voluntary thing...............

[alancarp]

*Secret serial killer (typo)

[VRWCarea51]

And since when does a Defendant’s Attorney get to have input into the language and detail of an Indictment?

WTF?

[alancarp]

Found the answer to my question... sort of:

"Hastert’s ability to make such large cash payments probably came from his career as a K Street lobbyist. He entered Congress in 1987 with a net worth of no more than $270,000 and then exited worth somewhere between $4 million and $17 million, according to congressional disclosure documents."