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Exclusive: Alleged Dennis Hastert Sex Abuse Victim Is Named By Family
ABC News ^ | June 5, 2015 | BRIAN ROSS, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and JOHN CAPELL

Posted on 06/05/2015 5:58:57 AM PDT by maggief

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1 posted on 06/05/2015 5:58:57 AM PDT by maggief
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Any homosexual in government would be a ripe candidate for blackmail. And the blackmailer should also be punished. If retribution for cases such as this need redressing, it should be done through the courts.


2 posted on 06/05/2015 6:03:15 AM PDT by txrefugee
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There's an important piece of information in this article:

Jolene said she believes the abuse ended when Steve moved away after his high school graduation in 1971. Reinboldt died of AIDS in 1995.

Someone else was blackmailing Hastert. The sister claims she doesn't know who it is.

3 posted on 06/05/2015 6:04:43 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderators)
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To: maggief

Guy died from AIDS in ‘95, and this entire article is based on his sisters hearsay.

Love the breathless George jumping all over it like it is engraved in stone, not without any proof whatsoever except her story.


4 posted on 06/05/2015 6:06:22 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: maggief

So Hastert made him gay. I guess he wasn’t born that way.


5 posted on 06/05/2015 6:11:12 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: Abathar

Brian Ross must be their “go-to” guy on stuff like this.


6 posted on 06/05/2015 6:11:15 AM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: Abathar

Jolene “believes that “Individual A” is familiar with what happened with her brother.” Perhaps that is why she got a the call from the FBI?


7 posted on 06/05/2015 6:11:36 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Ah, but it’s OUR fault because we dare say homosexuality is wrong!


8 posted on 06/05/2015 6:12:48 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: txrefugee
-- Any homosexual in government would be a ripe candidate for blackmail. --

That would explain the politician's general lack of objection to (and probably the courts' embracing of) the pro-homo lobby. Once being homo is "normal," the stigma that facilitates blackmail is removed.

9 posted on 06/05/2015 6:15:44 AM PDT by Cboldt
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:: this entire article is based on his sister’s hearsay ::

There is no longer any such thing as “hearsay” evidence in the State of Illinois. Dead men CAN tell tales according to the Illinois courts.

Ask Drew Peterson who is serving a life sentence for the ^unconfirmed^ “murder” of his 3rd and 4th wife. Even without “corpus delecti”, he was convicted by a jury of his peers on the second hand testimony of his wife’s spiritual counselor (local pastor). Exhumed and autopsied corpus (Wife #3) not withstanding.

Drew inferred that his (#4) wife was in an active dalliance with said pastor but...hey, we got a “disappearance” to resolve and get off the books.

God Bless Will County, Illinois.


10 posted on 06/05/2015 6:18:25 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: maggief

Soooo....who got the MILLIONS, Stevie or his sister?? I want to KNOW!


11 posted on 06/05/2015 6:18:43 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: maggief

But she doesn’t know who is blackmailing him. Now that the story broke I can’t believe Hassert isn’t going to take the guy down with him, unless the story is even darker than what we suspect now.


12 posted on 06/05/2015 6:19:42 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: maggief

If it’s homosexual behavior with a Republican, it’s “abuse”.

If it’s homosexual behavior with a Democrat, “it’s just about love”?


13 posted on 06/05/2015 6:22:07 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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She kept this crime secret for 36 years while Hastert rose to power?

What does this say about her credibility?


14 posted on 06/05/2015 6:26:09 AM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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So Hastert made him gay. I guess he wasn’t born that way.

Some gays were born that way, most got sucked into it.

15 posted on 06/05/2015 6:28:34 AM PDT by null and void (I wish we lived in less interesting times, but at least we have front-row seats.)
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To: Ann Archy
Soooo....who got the MILLIONS, Stevie or his sister?? I want to KNOW!

Thank you, my question exactly!

16 posted on 06/05/2015 6:31:25 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: maggief
In Steve Reinboldt’s 1970 high school yearbook, wrestling coach Dennis Hastert wrote that Steve was his “great, right hand man”

Look at that. Hastert actually confessed...

17 posted on 06/05/2015 6:31:29 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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Supposedly she went to the news with it, (so she says) but since it was just her word I guess they showed enough common sense not to get sued to high heaven for slander or liable, whichever it is.


18 posted on 06/05/2015 6:33:02 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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Apparently she didn’t keep it quiet. It’s been reported she contacted ABC during the Foley episode and ABC said they could not confirm the story so did not run it.

Who was going to believe this woman vs the Speaker of the House? Although... you would think that the way the Foley situation was handled ... someone would have delved into the allegation a bit more.

The whole think has ick written all over it.


19 posted on 06/05/2015 6:33:22 AM PDT by conservaKate
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To: maggief; HomerBohn
Homer Bohn wrote: The illusion of choice(democrats and republicans); poison or poison lite. America is a one party system with two heads.

'He damaged him more than we will ever know': Sister claims former House Speaker Dennis Hastert sexually abused her teen brother while coaching his school wrestling team

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3112252/Former-House-Speaker-Dennis-Hastert-abused-brother-high-school-wrestling-team-sister-claims.html

...ABC News revealed that Steve Reinboldt's sister had tried to get in touch with media outlets nine years ago to reveal Hastert's alleged sexual abuse as she watched him climb to a position of national political power...

Yeppers - the media "watchdogs" knew that Hastert was nobody to mess with when he was "in power"

Which is why they won't mess with The Witch.

20 posted on 06/05/2015 6:34:17 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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