Do we know what the misconduct was? Can we assume it was illegal? Otherwise, how was the law broken by Hastert when he was being extorted?
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He was arrested for transferring his own money to a blackmailer. If the money was going to the Red Cross he would still have been arrested.
How is that illegal?
I don’t know, but to agree to pay someone 3.5 Million to keep quiet tells you whatever it was, would have destroyed him.... my guess would likely be something sexual in nature.
However, paying someone to keep quiet is not a crime in and of itself.... so this entire prosecution is insane.
He spent his own money on something he wanted to spend it on, once the FBI investigation proved that what he was doing with his money was not a crime, that should have been the end of this.
This is an abuse of the law as far as I’m concerned. How and what he decided to do with his own money is none of the feds business, to not tell them what it was for should not be a crime. Once the FBI discovered the money was not from or going to anything illegal that should have been the end of it. IF you can go to jail for just doing things with your own money and telling the Fed to get bent when they come asking about it, then we live in a tyrannical state. This law needs gone.. to be prosecuted purely from this is insane.