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
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
I had no clue that defense was about Hastert's perversion... The names of duplicitous fake conservatives grows by leaps and bounds daily.
“You do see the difference between what Frank did and what Hastert is alleged to have done, right?”
Let’s you tell us all.
I know someone very close to me that was abused as a child by a school coach.
My scoutmaster was a pedo. I had just joined the troop when the scandal broke so I was not directly affected. But I saw the aftermath. One kid showed up to school one day with a black eye. One of the older kids had beat him up to keep him quiet. Nasty, nasty stuff. These pedos destroy a lot of lives. Then can all die in a fire.
Agreed. Stealing the innocence of the young, or otherwise debauching their sense of self is a terrible crime. This sort of injury to the soul is often passed on to another child, once that victim has matured. In that way, the cycle of abuse is continued. The children can never get that time back.
Barney Frank was involved with frown men, send this moron to prison for the rest of his life.
Let him feel the stiff arm of justice...
“Get a rope!”
If you believe in freedom, limited government, and rule of law this case is wrong on many levels.
Consider Hastert is not being charged by the Obama Department of Justice with molesting young boys. Instead he is being charged with structuring withdrawals from his own bank accounts in a way to avoid the withdrawals being reported by the bank to the US government. The crime he is being charged with (withdrawing his own money from his own bank accounts) should not be a crime at all in a free country.
Hastert withdrew the money to pay an extortionist. Extortion is a crime. Yet the DOJ is not bringing charges against the extortionist.
In addition the allegations of sexual misconduct by Hastert are not being made in court. Instead they are being leaked to the press by federal prosecutors (officers of the court). Those who fear the power of an overly zealous government should condemn these leaks and demand the government investigators be disciplined for violating the rights of Hastert, as well as potentially Hastert’s victims, by leaking such information. The place for criminal charges to be heard is not in press, it is in the courtroom. If the attorneys for the government cannot assemble enough evidence about criminal conduct to bring charges they should not be leaking information to the press.
Finally, if the charges that Hastert committed sexual crimes are true, why isn’t the Obama DOJ bringing formal charges? Could it be the sexual conduct involves both pedopehlia and homosexuality? Does the evidence of sexual misconduct show Hastert was a predatory homosexual? That story line doesn’t support the politically correct view of homosexuality.
In no way do I excuse Hastert. If he is, or was, a child molester bring him up on charges for the crime. A government that will spy on its citizens, and secretively leak destructive information about them , without using the due process of law, and with the intent to defame the individual is a government to be feared.
How did you think he got to be speaker so fast after Livingston was outed?
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I think the GOPe knew, but they wanted somebody they could control.
For once, I’ll let a Washington Post story from 20 years ago to the “telling” for me:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/scandal/gobie2.htm
After he retired, they had no more use for him. It’s funny how his payments were discovered.
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The bank ratted on him.
At the trial, will the jury observe the “Hastert Rule?”
Makes me sick.
Excellent post.
I’m not clicking through to the Washington Post.
Yes, of course. Hastert is a dirtbag and should pay for his crime. I'm just pointing out that moral turpitude is an occasion for promotion among Democrats.
SO WHAT! where’s bj klinton?
“How did you think he got to be speaker so fast after Livingston was outed......?”
Because they knew his dirty little secret and thus they OWNED him right from the start.
I hope one day we learn what secret Boehner had hidden.Also John Roberts.
Because they knew his dirty little secret and thus they OWNED him right from the start.
Pedos don’t stop. They got rid of the Congressional page system for a reason.
That didn’t call him Hastert the Bastert for nothing.
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