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NFT: Former speaker Dennis Hastert sentenced to prison

spike : 4/27/2016 5:42 pm
'CHICAGO (AP) — Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison in the hush-money case that included accusations he sexually abused teenagers while coaching high school wrestling.

Judge Thomas M. Durkin also ordered Hastert to undergo sex-offender treatment, spend two years on supervised release after 15 months behind bars and pay a $250,000 fine to a crime victims’ fund.

In explaining his punishment, the judge called Hastert a “serial child molester” and described as “unconscionable” his attempt to accuse one of the victims of extortion.

Hastert becomes one of the highest-ranking politicians in American history to be sentenced to prison. He pleaded guilty last fall to violating banking law as he sought to pay $3.5 million to someone referred to in court papers only as Individual A to keep the sex abuse secret.

Earlier in the hearing, a former athlete who said he was molested by Hastert decades ago told the courtroom that he was “devastated” by the abuse.

The man, now in his 50s, said Hastert abused him while they were alone in a locker room. He struggled to hold back tears as he described the incident in detail. In the years since, he said, he sought professional help and had trouble sleeping. He said the memory still causes him pain.

He said he trusted and looked up to Hastert.

In his own statement, Hastert admitted that he “mistreated” some of his athletes and said he was “deeply ashamed.”


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Scumbag of the highest order  
Modus Operandi : 4/27/2016 5:44 pm : link
Enjoy getting your face kicked in, Coach!
15 months behind bars.  
madgiantscow009 : 4/27/2016 5:48 pm : link
Should be 15 years.
Coach Cock is Lucky  
Aloha Alan : 4/27/2016 5:54 pm : link
his health is so bad or else he might have gotten 15 years.
gross  
phil in arizona : 4/27/2016 6:05 pm : link
.
He couldn't get 15 years  
sphinx : 4/27/2016 6:06 pm : link
from the charges he was found guilty of

How did he get away with this...  
BamaBlue : 4/27/2016 6:07 pm : link
for so many years. Are the American political class this insulated from the law?
RE: 15 months behind bars.  
Scyber : 4/27/2016 6:13 pm : link
In comment 12925340 madgiantscow009 said:
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Should be 15 years.


Put him in gen pop and the problem will sort itself out.
RE: How did he get away with this...  
Modus Operandi : 4/27/2016 6:18 pm : link
In comment 12925368 BamaBlue said:
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for so many years. Are the American political class this insulated from the law?


In a word, yes.

I used to work for a member of Congress. He was pulled over at about 2am in Virginia while driving erratically. Upon administering a FST, the officers ruled he was DUI and arrested him. Police officer asked him where he was headed so late and he said, and I'm paraphrasing, "Going to see my daughter."

Yeah, well, turns out he didn't have a daughter...with his wife. Turns out he had an affair with a military officer and had a child out of wedlock. So much for all the family values he loved to talk so much about.

He resigned from office to spend more time with family. He ran again once the seat became vacant.


RE: How did he get away with this...  
Jim in Fairfax : 4/27/2016 6:30 pm : link
In comment 12925368 BamaBlue said:
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for so many years. Are the American political class this insulated from the law?

This hsppened 40+ years ago when he was a high school teacher.
He looks like a freak  
Rflairr : 4/27/2016 6:31 pm : link
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Good  
dust_bowl : 4/27/2016 6:46 pm : link
. Maybe one day they'll prosecute the likes of bush, Kissinger and Clinton for war crimes. One day.
Congressman, Bubba would like to  
Stan in LA : 4/27/2016 6:47 pm : link
Have a word with you...
RE: How did he get away with this...  
steve in ky : 4/27/2016 6:52 pm : link
In comment 12925368 BamaBlue said:
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for so many years. Are the American political class this insulated from the law?


IN this case one could say that it was actually his political fame that likley caught him in the ends.

Wasn't he charged with illegal money withdrawals in order to try an conceal money he was paying to a blacmmaleri about his past abuse?

If he never had ran for any office and become a national figure it likley would never have come to light.
RE: Good  
Rflairr : 4/27/2016 7:51 pm : link
In comment 12925432 dust_bowl said:
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. Maybe one day they'll prosecute the likes of bush, Kissinger and Clinton for war crimes. One day.


Gotta get Dubya first
RE: How did he get away with this...  
montanagiant : 4/27/2016 8:04 pm : link
In comment 12925368 BamaBlue said:
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for so many years. Are the American political class this insulated from the law?

Statue of Limitations in the abuse cases
More questionable justice...  
BamaBlue : 4/27/2016 8:54 pm : link
Hastert was ready to pay $3.5M in hush money, but got fined $250,000 in the ruling against him. He's a despicable piece of human debris. It's horrible that a small piece of justice took so long to find him.
Grand Old  
XBRONX : 4/27/2016 9:08 pm : link
Pedophile.
Seems that a prerequisite for being a career politician  
SomeFan : 4/27/2016 9:09 pm : link
is to be a liar, psychopath, or pedophile with most likely all three applicable. When does the revolution start?
when they find out a prosecutor  
GentleGiant : 4/27/2016 10:14 pm : link
was a corrupt individual, they review all of the cases he presided over, shouldn't they do the same thing when a legislator proves to be a corrupt individual?
A fraction of a fraction of a fraction  
Motley Two : 4/27/2016 10:22 pm : link
of the child molesters & sexual deviants who earn a living on Capital Hill. One of the worse kept secrets in D.C. for a very long time.
kind of makes you wonder  
mdc1 : 4/29/2016 12:41 pm : link
how many more of our leaders are sexual offenders and deviants that are being blackmailed to manipulate and corrupt ours and world governments.
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