Looks to me like he has a point. I don’t see where it is wrong to take money out of ones back account regardless of the amount. I think the law was more intended to be for money being deposited into a back account in order to launder the money.
Hastert’s biggest crime is ‘breathing while Republican’.
I have no clue whether Denny Hastert is diddling little boys but he’s been a crook for years. Years ago I watched a whole documentary about him arranging for a road to be built past or through a property he owned so he could jack up the price and get a nice payoff. He’s a disgrace to the GOP whether he’s a pedophile or not. Looks like his chickens are coming home to roost.
It should not be any business of the government what someone does with his or her own money, unless it is used in the commission of a crime; and only THEN, when the government is investigating the crime, should they be able to track the money for use as evidence at trial.
If I want to take my money out of the bank and wallpaper my house with it, it should not be the government’s business.
Of course, we are no longer a free country, so I’m dreaming.
All this is a result of the War on Drugs. End the WOD and you end the reason for hundreds of intrusive and unconstitutional laws.
I get the point about money withdrawals and strongly disagree with it.
That said, dennis hastert was a polotician and a scumbag, redundant as those terms may be. Air should be illegal if he breathes it. So they can toss hom in the clink for as long as they want and I’m not going to lose a minute of sleep over it.
Wasn’t it Stalin who originally made it a crime to take your money out of the bank...?
No, wait, I must be thinking of Mao Tse Tung.
Three points:
1. Hastert might be a pedophile.
2. Only Republican politicians are investigated and indicted for such crimes.
3. False indictments of Republicans for political persecution is now commonplace, and Republican “leaders” are too gutless to fight it.
Martha Stewart would have almost certainly received no jail time if she had simply remained silent, and probably would have escaped any prosecution at all.
I don't know the details of Hastert’s legal position, but how often do potential criminal defendants IMPROVE their legal outcome by voluntarily talking to the Feds?
I don’t mind seeing Dennis Hastert prosecuted, but I object strongly to him being prosecuted over a bad law. The “structuring” laws and the civil forfeiture laws should be repealed - those laws serve no valid purpose. If they can prosecute Hastert for being a predator who harmed children, I’ll support life without parole. Otherwise, Obama’s corrupt justice department needs to stop persecuting Hastert for merely being a sleaze while republican.
Hastert is renewed proof that Republican primary voters make poor nominations for Congress.
The liberal dems would make it illegal to be a conservative if they could. Punishable by death.
You can withdraw money but under $10,000.00 and not too often!
This is an old Bill Clinton law!
There is no freedom without financial privacy.
I’m sure the IRS is equally concerned with the hundreds of thousands of dollars that the clenis has paid out to silence all of his baby mamas.
They have not enough evidence of the real crimes that they charge him with things that should not be a crime?
Federal Reserve Notes are no longer “Legal Tender”.
If only he were a pop star named Michael
He had a chance to change the law but he didn't.
He should get no sympathy now, the filthy pervert.