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Dennis Hastert accused of sexual abuse by at least 4, sources say
Chicago Tribune ^ | 04/07/2016 | Christy Gutowski and Jeff Coen

Posted on 04/07/2016 9:03:38 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

For months, federal authorities have hinted at the motive behind the hush-money payments former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has admitted to making: the sexual abuse of a teenage boy when Hastert was still a suburban high school teacher and wrestling coach.

But now, a Tribune investigation has uncovered new details of the case — at least four people have made what law enforcement sources say are credible allegations of sexual abuse against Hastert.

The Tribune has determined the identities of three of them, all men, whose allegations stretch over a decade when they were teenagers and Hastert was their coach. One is dead. The Tribune has approached the other two — described in federal court records as Individuals A and D — and confirmed their roles in the case

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: pedophile; sexualabbuse
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1 posted on 04/07/2016 9:03:38 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Get a rope!


2 posted on 04/07/2016 9:04:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kid Shelleen

How did you think he got to be speaker so fast after Livingston was outed? Hastert was too old/fat to be suspected of the same.


3 posted on 04/07/2016 9:05:10 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

GOPe!


4 posted on 04/07/2016 9:06:44 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Kid Shelleen

Betcha Denny regrets not switching to the Democrat Party after leaving office...


5 posted on 04/07/2016 9:07:27 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The GOPe deserve nothing more than a middle finger)
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How did you think he got to be speaker so fast

These guys need to have flaws so they can be controlled.

6 posted on 04/07/2016 9:08:43 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
He is in his 70’s. Hastert should die in a prison cell. Steal the innocence of children, send them into a life of emotional turmoil then plea with the judge for mercy?

Good grief.

7 posted on 04/07/2016 9:08:46 AM PDT by servantboy777
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He is in his 70’s. Hastert should die in a prison cell.

He should get the "Dahmer" Treatment.

8 posted on 04/07/2016 9:09:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kid Shelleen

And yet Barney Frank, who operated a sodomite brothel from his basement, is lionized.


9 posted on 04/07/2016 9:10:00 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: Kid Shelleen

Yes. He was the obvious “jewel” of a replacement for the disgraced dropped-pants Gingrich who had to resign because of his dalliance with the Stepford Callista.


10 posted on 04/07/2016 9:10:04 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Kid Shelleen

Tip of the iceberg in Congress.


11 posted on 04/07/2016 9:10:26 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: itsahoot

Bingo.


12 posted on 04/07/2016 9:10:28 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Trump it is.)
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To: itsahoot

Its not for nothing that J. Edgar Hoover was FBI director all those years.


13 posted on 04/07/2016 9:10:30 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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I don't like these “victims” coming out decades later. Sounds like extortion and the press shouldn't ruin the accused life with these half-baked stories. They sure don't with the Clintons.
14 posted on 04/07/2016 9:11:18 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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“And yet Barney Frank, who operated a sodomite brothel from his basement, is lionized.”

You do see the difference between what Frank did and what Hastert is alleged to have done, right?


15 posted on 04/07/2016 9:13:21 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Kid Shelleen
What a repulsive low life. IIRC it was Tom Delay that helped Hastert get the Speaker's chair.. Tom Delay is fast loosing his ‘conservative’ credentials. Tom should have stayed home in Texas and exterminated bugs. What is becoming clearer and clearer, the Bush administration and republican Congress was overflowing with the gay mafia. I remember Foley...
16 posted on 04/07/2016 9:13:39 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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I was onto Hastert as soon as he defended William Jefferson D-LA.

Hastert knew eventually they would come for him.


17 posted on 04/07/2016 9:14:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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The Democrats wanted him as Speaker because he could be easily controlled. After he retired, they had no more use for him. It’s funny how his payments were discovered. The democrats are just trying to tie up some loose ends.

Hasert was a turncoat. I hope he gets raped in prison.


18 posted on 04/07/2016 9:15:15 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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Put him in prion with Ben D Over as his cell Mate. hehehehehehe


19 posted on 04/07/2016 9:16:14 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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I know someone very close to me that was abused as a child by a school coach.

This fella was sent into a life of anger, mistrust, relational issues, drug/alcohol abuse, serial marriages/divorce, depression....awful.

An emotional prison. Really great guy. He is just now in his mid 50’s beginning to heal.

Seeing this first hand, Hastert should go to prison for at least ten years for each of the four young people he molested. That would essentially have him die in prison.

20 posted on 04/07/2016 9:16:20 AM PDT by servantboy777
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