He was never tried or convicted for anything else.. If you want a judge to consider a persons previous ills fine, but without being tried and convicted of those ills is a perversion.
Did Hastert deny the molestations? I think he apologized to the victims, didn’t he? Had he vehemently denied molesting those boys, maybe you would have a point. But he admitted it. Which is why he was paying the extortion to begin with.