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Dennis Hastert Molested at Least Four Boys, Prosecutors Say
NY Times ^ | APRIL 8, 2016 | MONICA DAVEY and MITCH SMITH

Posted on 04/08/2016 8:12:20 PM PDT by TroutStalker

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors on Friday for the first time provided details of sexual abuse allegations against J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House, asserting that he molested at least four boys, as young as 14, when he worked as a high school wrestling coach decades ago.

Mr. Hastert, 74, is not charged with the incidents of abuse because of statutes of limitation, prosecutors said, but he was accused last year of illegally structuring bank withdrawals for money he was paying to one of his victims in an effort to hide the abuse. He pleaded guilty in October to the banking violation, and suffered a stroke in November while awaiting sentencing, now set for later this month.

According to a court filing by prosecutors late Friday laying out their sentencing considerations, Mr. Hastert, a popular coach in a small Illinois town in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, gave one boy a massage in the locker room, then performed an unspecified sex act on him. Another boy, Stephen Reinboldt, who died in 1995, was sexually abused by Mr. Hastert throughout high school in the late 1960s and early 1970s, his sister and others told the prosecutors. And prosecutors said Mr. Hastert had massaged another boy’s groin area after asking the boy to stay in his hotel room during a wrestling camp.

“Defendant used his position of trust as a teacher and coach to touch a child’s genitals and then undress and ask the child for a back massage in a motel room,” the prosecutors wrote of that incident. “There is no ambiguity; defendant sexually abused Individual A.”

Prosecutors said Mr. Hastert’s life had been “marred by stunning hypocrisy.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: dennishastert; dennyfeelgood; faggyrepublicans; fdrq; hastert; homosexualagenda; likesboyz; sexoffenders
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1 posted on 04/08/2016 8:12:20 PM PDT by TroutStalker
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To: TroutStalker

Ah, the GOP establishment personified.


2 posted on 04/08/2016 8:13:53 PM PDT by Border Terrier
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To: TroutStalker

Where the F*** do they find these creeps... and HOW do they keep getting elected....


3 posted on 04/08/2016 8:15:36 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: TroutStalker

Two things to remember:

First, whatever Hastert did or did not do has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with conservative principles. If he is shown to be a hypocrite, then that is what he is. He is responsible under the law for his own actions, and should be held accountable for them, as should we all.

Second, if Hastert is guilty, he should pay the price.


4 posted on 04/08/2016 8:15:38 PM PDT by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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To: Border Terrier; TroutStalker

But what do they have on Roberts?


5 posted on 04/08/2016 8:15:44 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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To: TroutStalker

Thank Allah (peace be upon him), they weren’t Muslim!


6 posted on 04/08/2016 8:16:03 PM PDT by IncPen (Hey Media: Bias = Layoffs)
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To: TroutStalker

My gut feeling is that Hastert was not the exception in DC.


7 posted on 04/08/2016 8:16:28 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: TroutStalker

Could become a gay icon as the highest ranking elected homosexual in history. Well, until Hillary wins in November.


8 posted on 04/08/2016 8:16:42 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: TroutStalker

Whatta Mench. Where does Paul Ryno fall on that scale?


9 posted on 04/08/2016 8:17:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: TroutStalker
Too bad it wasn't in Missouri where there is no statute of limitations on a Class A Felony - Forcible Sodomy.
10 years to life.
10 posted on 04/08/2016 8:17:25 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket (Pressure makes diamonds - General Patton)
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To: Belteshazzar

If he were a dimocrat this is a resume enhancer.


11 posted on 04/08/2016 8:17:43 PM PDT by ealgeone (The)
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To: Neidermeyer

Must be something good.


12 posted on 04/08/2016 8:18:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: exit82

Not by a long shot.


13 posted on 04/08/2016 8:19:01 PM PDT by miserare ( "What difference does it make?"~~Benghazi Hil)
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To: Neidermeyer

Traitor Roberts?


14 posted on 04/08/2016 8:19:42 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: TroutStalker

Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the GOPe!!


15 posted on 04/08/2016 8:20:12 PM PDT by WENDLE (I guess)
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To: NFHale

Where the F*** do they find these creeps
= = =

It seems that these creeps are the only ones that are slimey enough to go through the campaigning and fund raising process (and associated soul selling).


16 posted on 04/08/2016 8:20:21 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: TroutStalker; Chode

Somehow I get the feeling they all did.


17 posted on 04/08/2016 8:20:25 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: TroutStalker

He was in congress. Hasn’t anyone read “The Franklin Scandal”? The CIA sets everyone up in congress, unless they already have dirt on them. If that doesn’t work they bribe them.

Trump or Bust 2016


18 posted on 04/08/2016 8:20:38 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Neidermeyer
But what do they have on Roberts?

Paul Ryan.... Hell, he's a natural sell out.

19 posted on 04/08/2016 8:20:39 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: ealgeone

Sadly, you are right.

But he isn’t, and it is our shame.

However, whatever he is, it is no reflection on conservative principles, which he has betrayed. His predilection is what used to be called sin. It also is still - thank God! - illegal. He will have to make his own peace with the society in which he lives and the God before whom he is answerable.


20 posted on 04/08/2016 8:21:46 PM PDT by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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