Posted on 05/29/2015 1:33:04 PM PDT by jimbo123
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert paid a man to conceal sexual misconduct while the man was a student at the high school where Hastert taught, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News on Friday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity. Tribune newspapers reported earlier in the day that two unnamed federal officials said that Hastert paid a man from his past to conceal sexual misconduct.
Hastert was indicted Thursday on charges that he structured bank withdrawals to avoid federal reporting requirements and later lied about it to the FBI.
The indictment said that Hastert was paying an unidentified person from his past to conceal Hastert's "prior misconduct." The indictment did not specify the alleged misconduct or name the person.
The Yorkville, Illinois, school district where Hastert taught and coached wrestling from 1965 to 1981 said that it had "no knowledge of Mr. Hastert's alleged misconduct, nor has any individual contacted the District to report any such misconduct."
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Just in time to knock a contracting economy and the Clinton Foundation-FIFA scandal off the front pages. My my my my....
There must have been proof or Hastert wouldn’t have been willing to pay up.
Congress is a cesspool. The leadership are all compromised in some way.
Dennis The Menace
It does seem odd this is coming out now, doesn’t it?
Follow the money . . .
You may have a point.
Don’t molest boys, and you will not be inclined to pay an extortion.
One person’s definition of sexual misconduct can differ greatly from that of another, depending on political ideology, of course.
I’m sure the cloakrooms are a nexus of evil doing microbes...
Maybe he was an intern
Not excusing whatever Hastert may or may not have done, but gee, now the Clintons can say everyone does it with funny money and they are no worse than everybody else.
0bama and Frist, along with all those others. 0bama ‘likes’ older White men’s offerings. 0bama doesn’t give back. I guess he’s not charitable.
No. The timing isn’t at all surprising.
Why wouldn’t you expect the opposition to wait to release damaging revelations until the time was right, from their point of view?
Sounds like there’s a blackmailer out there who needs to be indicted along with Hastert.
Proof or not, it has to be true or he wouldn’t pay. A false charge would be horrible, but no one would pay that much to stop one.
Now we are seeing why the Republicans are so weak. They are being blackmailed.
You can only lie under oath or to a federal official if you are Democrat. Hastert should have changed his party affiliation and he would have been fine.
I would wager the blackmailer is a democrat homo so he’s exempt from prosecution.
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