Former House speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois), the longest-serving GOP House Speaker in history, was indicted Thursday, May 28, for illegally structuring cash withdrawals from bank accounts to make payments, and he lied to the FBI about the situation.
Hastert, 73, agreed to pay the individual who is not named, $3.5 million to compensate for and to conceal his prior misconduct against the person, according the indictment.
Poor Hastert. Hastert resigned in 2007 after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 1987. Hastert, was a powerful leader, seen as the establishment Republicans that Free Republic despised (along with Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, etc.)
Hastert is likely to be in prison. Good riddance, Congressman Hastert.
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