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    If Hastert were a Clinton, they would harangue us daily with this story. If he were a Clinton, the republicans would feed this story to keep it alive. Are the republicans a party of double standards?

    This indicates that they certainly are!

    A few of them could at least comment, how about saying " Dennis, if you are guilty of something come clean. If not, say so." That is mild to how they treat democrats!

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    Hastert Closes PAC, Moves $10,000 to Defense Fund

    CHICAGO — Aug 1, 2015, 12:32 PM ET

    Federal election records indicate that former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has closed his political action committee and moved $10,000 of the money to his legal defense fund.

    The Chicago Tribune ( http://trib.in/1KGs5WC ) reports that Federal Election Commission records show the indicted Illinois politician closed his Keep Our Mission PAC on June 30 and moved $10,000 to the J. Dennis Hastert Defense Trust.


    Hastert has pleaded not guilty to violating banking laws and lying to the FBI.


    A federal indictment says Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million to someone identified only as "Individual A" to hide past misconduct.

    The Associated Press and other media, citing anonymous sources, have reported the payments were intended to conceal claims of sexual misconduct.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/h...-fund-32825304

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    Judge Gives Hastert Lawyers More Time for Pre-Trial Motions


    • By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    CHICAGO — Sep 11, 2015, 4:17 PM ET

    A federal judge has given lawyers for former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert more time to file pre-trial motions in his hush-money case.

    Attorneys for the Illinois Republican and federal prosecutors filed a joint motion Thursday asking for a two-week extension of Monday's filing deadline.


    The two sides say they've been discussing issues Hastert's lawyers may raise. They say the extension may give them time to address those issues so the motions won't be necessary.


    U. S. District Court Judge Thomas Durkin granted the motion Friday without comment.


    Hastert allegedly agreed to pay $3.5 million to someone identified only as "Individual A" to hide misconduct. The Associated Press and other media, citing anonymous sources, have reported the payments were intended to conceal decades-old claims of sexual misconduct.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/j...tions-33695061

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    Lawyers for Dennis Hastert in plea negotiations with prosecutors


    Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is accused of agreeing to pay $3.5 million in apparent hush money to a longtime acquaintance, then lying to the FBI when asked about suspicious cash withdrawals from several banks.


    Jason Meisner Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune
    Lawyers for Dennis Hastert and federal prosecutors acknowledge they're in plea negotiations

    Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is negotiating a possible guilty plea to charges he agreed to make $3.5 million in hush-money payments to cover up wrongdoing from decades ago.

    The plea negotiations, revealed Monday during a hearing in federal court, are the first indication that the bombshell charges brought against the Republican powerhouse might never be fully aired at trial.


    Attorney Jeffrey Cramer, a former federal prosecutor, said it should come as no surprise that Hastert might try to avoid a public trial that almost certainly would include testimony from Individual A, the mysterious figure who prosecutors say took cash from Hastert to keep quiet about a dark history with him.


    "Mr. Hastert allegedly spent millions to try to keep something secret, so a public trial certainly can't be high on his list," said Cramer, who heads the Kroll security company in Chicago.


    The indictment unsealed in late May alleges that Hastert agreed to make $3.5 million in hush-money payments to Individual A to cover up wrongdoing from decades ago during Hastert's time as a high school teacher and wrestling coach in Yorkville. According to the charges, Hastert lied about the reasons he withdrew $952,000 in cash over the previous 2 1/2 years when the FBI questioned him last December.

    Though the indictment only hints at the alleged wrongdoing, federal law enforcement sources have told the Tribune that Hastert was paying to cover up sexual abuse of a Yorkville High School student years ago. The FBI also interviewed a second person who raised similar allegations against Hastert, sources said.


    Hastert dumps last $10,000 from PAC into legal defense fund

    Cramer said it's likely that as part of the plea negotiations Hastert's lawyers would seek to keep any salacious details from coming out at a sentencing hearing.

    But if Hastert tried to argue for a lenient sentence from the judge by presenting letters of support or other good works from his career, prosecutors could counter with evidence they would have presented at trial, he said.


    "We don't know what's at the heart of this case, and it is possible we may never know," Cramer said.


    At Monday's court hearing, John Gallo, one of Hastert's attorneys, said the defense legal team has been discussing with federal prosecutors a possible resolution to the case short of a trial. He called the talks "linear and productive."


    Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Block confirmed that talks on a plea deal were ongoing and asked the judge for additional time.

    "This is not a situation where both sides are sitting on their hands," Block said. "In fact, it's the opposite."


    Tribune coverage: Dennis Hastert indicted

    U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin said he was "more than happy" for both sides to resolve issues behind closed doors, but he said he wanted the case to move along. He asked both sides to give him an update at the next hearing Oct. 15, when he intends to set either a trial date for March or April or a date for Hastert to plead guilty.

    Hastert pleaded not guilty in June to one count each of evading currency reporting requirements and lying to the FBI and remains free on his own recognizance. He was not required to attend Monday's hearing.


    Gallo told the judge that the defense has completed a 37-page motion to dismiss the indictment and has shared a copy with prosecutors before filing it publicly. He said the motion raises "government misconduct issues" as well as legal arguments to dismiss the charge of lying to the FBI.


    Prosecutors have joined with Hastert's attorneys to ask for two delays in the filing of pretrial motions. Both sides have said in court filings that they were trying to work out "certain issues" short of asking the judge to resolve them.


    The court filings did not elaborate on the nature of the issues under discussion, but Hastert's Washington-based lawyer, Thomas Green, has twice lashed out in court over alleged government leaks in the case, calling allegations reported in the media of sexual abuse in Hastert's past "unconscionable" and saying a fair trial could be jeopardized. He has said he planned to file a motion seeking to dismiss the indictment on those grounds.


    Green has also said the defense team will issue subpoenas seeking more information.


    "We have some serious things to say in these motions," Green said at a hearing in July.


    In the telephone interview Monday, Cramer said it's unusual for defense attorneys to give a "preview" of their motions to prosecutors, but it could prove to be cunning tactic to play off of any "embarrassment factor" that the government may have over the leaks.


    "It's hard to maneuver, to make these motions and keep things private," Cramer said. "It's a game of chess and also a little bit of a game of chicken."


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    Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:02pm EDT

    Ex-U.S. House Speaker Hastert to plead guilty in hush-money case

    CHICAGO | BY MARY WISNIEWSKI

    Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert is surrounded by officers as he leaves federal court after pleading not guilty to federal charges of trying to hide large cash transactions and lying to the FBI in Chicago, Illinois, United States, June 9, 2015.
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    Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has reached a deal with prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to wrongdoing in a hush-money case, his lawyers told a federal judge in Chicago on Thursday.

    Prosecutors and defense attorneys did not say to which charge he would plead, or whether Hastert, the Republican speaker from 1999 to 2007, would serve time in prison.


    He was charged in May with trying to hide large cash transactions as part of a hush-money scheme and with lying about it to the FBI.


    The agreement is expected to be submitted to U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin on Monday, attorneys for Hastert said during a brief court appearance.


    Hastert, 73, who is free on bond, was not required to attend Thursday's hearing and was not in court. He pleaded not guilty in June to the two charges.


    Hastert has not spoken publicly since his indictment. He is scheduled to plead guilty on Oct. 28.


    Hastert was the longest-serving Republican speaker leading the House for eight years before leaving Congress in 2007 and becoming a powerful lobbyist.


    After his indictment, Hastert resigned from the Dickstein Shapiro lobbying firm in Washington and from the boards of exchange operator CME Group Inc (CME.O) and REX American Resources Corp (REX.N).


    His alma mater, Wheaton College in suburban Chicago, removed his name from a policy center.


    Federal prosecutors allege he promised to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed individual from his hometown of Yorkville, Illinois, to conceal past misconduct.


    The individual who was allegedly receiving hush money from Hastert has not surfaced publicly. But anonymous law enforcement officials have told several media outlets that Hastert was trying to cover up sexual abuse of a male decades ago when he worked as a high school teacher and wrestling coach.


    Hastert has not been charged with any past misconduct. He was a teacher at Yorkville High School in the 1960s and 1970s.


    Lawyers for both sides said in September they were negotiating a plea deal to keep the case from going to trial.

    Durkin had asked both sides to bring him an agreement this week, or he would set a trial date.


    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 the withdrawals, taking the funds out in increments of under $10,000 to evade a requirement that banks report large cash transactions.


    Hastert then told the FBI he was keeping the cash for himself, which the indictment said was a false statement.


    Each of the charges carries a possible maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.


    Former House Speaker Jim Wright, a Democrat from Texas, became the target of an inquiry by the House Ethics Committee over alleged financial improprieties and resigned as speaker in 1989 over the controversy. Wright died earlier this year.

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    Finally got him to fess up.Good.

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    DEC 17 2015, 3:00 PM ET

    Former Speaker Dennis Hastert Hospitalized for Six Weeks After Stroke

    by TRACY CONNOR

    Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who is awaiting sentencing in his hush-money case, had a stroke and has been hospitalized for six weeks, his attorney confirmed on Thursday.

    The Republican politician also suffered from sepsis, a life-threatening side effect of infection, and underwent two back surgeries.


    Nevertheless, attorney Thomas Green said in a statement that he expects Hastert to be released in early 2016. It was not clear if that would happen before his scheduled Feb. 29 sentencing in Chicago federal court.


    Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrives Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Chicago. Paul Beaty / AP

    In October, Hastert admitted making illegal bank withdrawals for payoffs, which sources say were used to quash allegations of sexual misconduct with a student when he was a high-school teacher and coach decades ago.


    Prosecutors are recommending up to six months behind bars, but the judge could impose a stiffer sentence.


    A letter to the judge written by a Hastert friend, pleading for leniency, mentioned his recent health woes.


    "In light of his recent hospital stay, I would hope that probation in lieu of confinement would be considered in determining his sentence," businessman William Pollard wrote.


    While the former speaker admitted in court that he intended to mislead authorities, Pollard wrote that "while his current situation may reflect mistakes in how he structured withdrawals from his bank accounts, he is not a deceitful person."

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...stroke-n481961

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    LAWYERS ASK TO DELAY DENNIS HASTERT SENTENCING ON HEALTH GROUNDS


    (FILE) Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., talks to a reporter on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007, after giving a farewell speech on the floor on the House. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)



    Updated 7 mins ago
    CHICAGO --

    Lawyers for former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert asked a federal judge on Friday to delay sentencing in his hush-money case because of his recent hospitalization for a stroke, as well as for spinal and blood infections - saying he has difficulty walking and will require weeks of rehabilitation.

    The Illinois Republican, who turned 74 earlier this month, has been unable to prepare for his Feb. 29 sentencing because of his health problems, according to the filing in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The document doesn't request a specific new date for sentencing but suggests that a status hearing be held on the question March 7.

    The three-page motion says Hastert was admitted to hospital in the first week of November and released Jan. 15. It adds that Hastert still needs up to six weeks of home care and rehabilitation.

    "Mr. Hastert continues to need assistance for most daily activities, and also needs both a walker and a leg brace to walk in his household," the filing goes on to say. "He will also need close follow up with several specialists during this process."

    It adds that required care could extend to additional months.

    "When home care is complete, Mr. Hastert will likely be recommended for outpatient physical therapy, which could last between six and twelve additional weeks depending upon the course of recovery," the filing says.

    Hastert was accused in May of evading banking regulations as part of a plan to pay hush money to conceal "prior misconduct." The Associated Press and other media outlets, citing anonymous sources, have reported that Hastert wanted to hide claims that he sexually molested someone decades earlier.

    Hastert pleaded guilty Oct. 28 to a felony count of evading bank reporting laws in a hush-money scheme. In the written plea agreement, he directly acknowledged for the first time that he sought to pay someone $3.5 million to hide misconduct by Hastert against that person dating back several decades - about the time the longtime GOP leader was a high school wrestling coach.

    Hastert had allegedly paid more than $1.7 million to the person, sometimes in lump sums of $100,000 cash, by the time the scheme was discovered. The indictment said the payments stopped after FBI agents first questioned Hastert in December 2014.

    Prosecutors recommended that he serve no more than six months in prison.

    Hastert was a little-known Illinois lawmaker whose reputation for congeniality helped him ascend the ranks of Congress to become the longest-serving Republican speaker in U.S. history. In January 1999, House Republicans voted for him to succeed Newt Gingrich, who had lost support because of ethics violations and the party's poor showing in the 1998 midterm election. He served as speaker from 1999 to 2007.

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    Dennis Hastert's Hush-Money Sentencing Delayed Until April


    • By MICHAEL TARM, ASSOCIATED PRESS

    CHICAGO — Jan 28, 2016, 4:33 PM ET

    A federal judge agreed Thursday to delay Dennis Hastert's sentencing in a hush-money case after his attorney said the former U.S. House Speaker nearly died in November from severe sepsis just days after changing his plea to guilty.

    U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin set April 8 as the new sentencing date for the 74-year-old Illinois Republican, replacing Feb. 29, after a defense attorney said Hastert is now largely immobile.


    Six days after pleading guilty on Oct. 28 to violating bank laws in seeking to pay someone $3.5 million in hush money, Hastert was hospitalized for a blood infection that spread to his spine and "nearly died that week," lawyer John Gallo said.


    Prosecutor Steven Block said at the hearing in U.S. District Court in Chicago that the government didn't object to pushing back sentencing — at least this one time. But he said it shouldn't be put off indefinitely.


    "There are victims in this case," he said. "They deserve closure."


    While Block used "victims" in the plural, he didn't identify who he was referring to or how two or more people may have been victimized. Asked about the language later Thursday, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office declined comment.


    The May indictment only mentions an "Individual A" who the former Speaker allegedly sought to pay "to compensate for and conceal (Hastert's) prior misconduct against Individual A." The Associated Press and other media outlets, citing anonymous sources, have reported that Hastert wanted to hide claims that he sexually molested someone decades earlier.


    Hastert in October acknowledged in his plea agreement for the first time that he did seek to pay someone to hide misconduct dating back decades — to around the time he was a high school wrestling coach. But neither he nor prosecutors have offered details.


    Hastert struggles to get around and the former GOP leader can't bathe or dress himself, Gallo said Thursday, adding, "But for the 24-hour care, he would be in a nursing home."


    In answer to repeated questions from the judge about Hastert's mental health, Gallo said his client suffered what he called "a small stroke" in the hospital but is "lucid."


    Durkin responded that, "other than the physical issue, there should be no reason" Hastert couldn't help prepare for sentencing, including by talking to court officials as they work up a pre-sentencing report.


    Prosecutors have said Hastert could qualify to serve up to six months in prison. Hastert's lawyers are likely to cite deteriorating health as a reason for him to get probation.


    Hastert was a little-known Illinois lawmaker whose reputation for congeniality helped him ascend the ranks of Congress to become the longest-serving Republican speaker in U.S. history.

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