You don’t pay that kind of money to right a wrong. You pay it to keep someone quiet.
Hastert was not charged with any real crime. He is charged with accessing his own money in the form of cash withdrawal. Then, of course, he is charged with lieing to the FBI because he probably did not correctly answer some question.
I don’t know why or who he was paying off. But the person who was extorting money from him was not charged with anything.
So, just think about what happened here, Hastert uses his legally earned money in cash form and is being charged as a criminal. He talked to the FBI and they did not like his answers so he is being charged with a crime of lieing rather than revealing what he was doing with the money. WTH business is it of the government to know how I use my money? Extortion may be a crime but I never knew that paying it was. Anyone who ever talks to the FBI is a fool. We have Hastert now and Martha Stewart a few years ago.