I tried to stray away from this story - however, my parents have kept up with this. Apparently, this guy is a sodomite, going all the way back to his days as a HS wrestling coach in the 80's(where he molested a couple of boys on his team, and apparently had a close "relationship" with a man during that time. And I think he was very close to his male chief of staff during his days as House Speaker).
Posting this here - b/c just one of the rotten fruits of this whole "religious right" movement - this whole Hegelian Dialectic scheme by the RR has been to do just that...make christianity look foolish.(and look at the timing of this - the USSC will make a landmark ruling on sodomite marriage in 3 weeks)
Former U.S. House Speaker Hastert to appear on federal chargeshttp://news.yahoo.com/former-u-house-speaker-hastert-appear-federal-charges-110457394.html6/9/15
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dennis Hastert, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was due to be arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Chicago on charges of trying to hide large cash transactions and lying to the FBI about it.
According to an indictment, Hastert, 73, was trying to evade detection of $3.5 million in payments he had promised to make to someone from his hometown of Yorkville, Illinois, to conceal past misconduct against the person.
Law enforcement officials have said Hastert was trying to cover up was sexual contact with a male, according to several media reports.
The Illinois Republican, who has not made any statements since he was indicted on May 28, was a high school teacher and wrestling coach at Yorkville High School in the 1960s and 1970s.
On Tuesday, Hastert was seen for the first time in public since the indictment. ABC News filmed the former lawmaker and his wife driving away from their farm in Wisconsin, stopping at a gas station in their black SUV, and arriving at their home in the Illinois town of Plano, about an hour's drive from Chicago.
Thomas Green, a Washington white-collar defense attorney with the Sidley Austin law firm, will represent Hastert, according to court documents and the law firm. Green declined to comment on the case.
Hastert led the House for eight years before leaving Congress in 2007. He was the longest-serving Republican speaker.**Yes, b/c they had alot of dirt on him.After the indictment, Hastert resigned from the Dickstein Shapiro lobbying firm in Washington, where he worked, and from the boards of exchange operator CME Group Inc and REX American Resources.
His alma mater, Wheaton College in suburban Chicago, removed his name from its policy center.**I believe Wheaton is a "Christian" college.According to the indictment, Hastert withdrew $1.7 million in cash from his bank accounts from 2010 to 2014. He is charged with "structuring" $952,000 of those withdrawals, taking the funds out in increments of under $10,000 to evade the requirement that banks report large cash transactions.**Now THIS is who they be going after! NOT after people like Kent Hovind(who was doing LEGAL business), but after people like Hastert(who was doing ILLEGAL business)!Hastert then told the FBI that he was keeping the cash for himself, which the indictment said was a false statement.
The person receiving the payments has yet to be identified. But another possible victim has emerged. The sister of a student at Yorkville High School told ABC News on Friday Hastert had sexually abused her brother, who is now deceased.
The arraignment is before District Judge Thomas Durkin in the federal courthouse in Chicago. The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois announced special media guidelines for proceedings including an overflow room for reporters.
