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Dennis Hastert Paid to Hide Sexual Misconduct With Student: Official
NBC News ^
| 5/29/15
| PETE WILLIAMS, ERIN MCCLAM and TRACY CONNOR
Posted on 05/29/2015 1:33:04 PM PDT by jimbo123
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert paid a man to conceal sexual misconduct while the man was a student at the high school where Hastert taught, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News on Friday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity. Tribune newspapers reported earlier in the day that two unnamed federal officials said that Hastert paid a man from his past to conceal sexual misconduct.
Hastert was indicted Thursday on charges that he structured bank withdrawals to avoid federal reporting requirements and later lied about it to the FBI.
The indictment said that Hastert was paying an unidentified person from his past to conceal Hastert's "prior misconduct." The indictment did not specify the alleged misconduct or name the person.
The Yorkville, Illinois, school district where Hastert taught and coached wrestling from 1965 to 1981 said that it had "no knowledge of Mr. Hastert's alleged misconduct, nor has any individual contacted the District to report any such misconduct."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: boehner; bush; cornyn; hastert; homosexualagenda; jarrett; karlrove; lynch; mcconnell; obama; reincepriebus; sexoffenders
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To: DoodleDawg
“Sounds like theres a blackmailer out there who needs to be indicted along with Hastert.”
True. Apparently the guy ambushed him on cspan during a call in last years election coverage.
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:43:10 PM PDT
by
Figment
To: jimbo123
I don't understand why Hastert wasn't aware of the law regarding withdrawing large sums. Did he just think he was exempt ?
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:43:38 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:44:11 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I Love Bull Markets!!!)
To: colorado tanker
But he began paying while teaching school.
84
posted on
05/29/2015 3:45:09 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I Love Bull Markets!!!)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
“Now we are seeing why the Republicans are so weak. They are being blackmailed.”
Predatory sexual deviants should be outed no matter the party. Problem is, it doesn’t hurt libs
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:45:30 PM PDT
by
Figment
To: DoodleDawg
The radio played a phone call that Hastert got on call ins. It was the blackmailer ... and he just laughed!
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:46:37 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I Love Bull Markets!!!)
To: Figment
Yes they should be outed so they can’t be blackmailed. If they vote to please an unelected blackmailer the republic is dead.
You are correct that it only hurts the right. You would have to blackmail the left with revelations of long term moral behavior, ownership of a gun, membership in a conservative organization, etc...
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:48:50 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: x
“He also doesn’t seem like what most people think of when they hear the word “gay” or “homosexual.”
Neither did the queer freak at Penn State
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:49:09 PM PDT
by
Figment
To: RckyRaCoCo
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:50:25 PM PDT
by
Figment
To: The Antiyuppie
Money laundering is illegal and he was structuring payments to hide.
90
posted on
05/29/2015 3:51:08 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I Love Bull Markets!!!)
To: BunnySlippers; Figment
I wouldn’t assume that caller is the blackmailer, Hastert is surely hiding a lot than one guy from 40 years ago.
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:51:30 PM PDT
by
Wayne07
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
” Isnt blackmail still illegal?”
I can't for the life of me understand why it is though. If you've done something this disgusting, to a minor no less, why not extort the sob. The law doesn't punish it sufficiently most of the time
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posted on
05/29/2015 3:58:32 PM PDT
by
Figment
To: BunnySlippers
But he began paying while teaching school.
From one similar thread link, he met with some guy in 2010 and started making payments soon thereafter. The 'leak' did not say that this guy was the one Hastert was involved with -- only that the guy was knowledgeable.
Possibly, there was more than one receiving payments over the years. One link said that the officials knew of another youth involved with Hastert but they declined to include that in the indictment.
The details are still hazy. We will just have to wait for more 'leaks'.
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posted on
05/29/2015 4:01:25 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: BunnySlippers
I have not heard that. He has been paying for over 30 years?
To: Figment
Lindsey Graham is a homo? I'm shocked, I tell you!
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posted on
05/29/2015 4:03:37 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
He should have been a scoutmaster.
To: jimbo123
Now we are seeing why the Republicans are so weak. They are being blackmailed.BUMP!
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posted on
05/29/2015 4:09:43 PM PDT
by
jaz.357
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: colorado tanker
I think we probably need to wait for a list of people being pai.
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posted on
05/29/2015 4:13:13 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I Love Bull Markets!!!)
To: jimbo123
Good grief, I wonder what’s in Boehner’s closet...half of Man Country?
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posted on
05/29/2015 4:17:09 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Probably gay....PLUS, his two adopted children were adopted illegally according to the NYTIMES. He is BLACKMAILED.
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posted on
05/29/2015 4:22:26 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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