I read the indictment, and, regardless of the merits of requiring reporting of $10,000 in cash, it looks bad for Hastert. He was taking out a few million dollars in cash to pay someone who was extorting him for something he did previously. The government doesn't say what Hastert was trying to cover up. But whatever it was was bad enough that Hastert was willing to pay $3 million. Also, how does a congressman get enough money that he can pay a $3 million hush money deal? How much did he make, from being a wrestling coach to being speaker?
Boehner, we are coming for you.