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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert accused of hiding sex abuse of former student


Inside the Denny Hastert affair
Exclusive: Joseph Farah asks pertinent questions about former speaker's sex scandal
May 31, 2015

How bad is the press in America?

So bad that an apparent sex abuser paying off an extortionist $3.5 million could become the speaker of the House, the third highest-ranking official in the country, serving longer in that position than any other Republican.

That’s the first thing that comes to mind when I think about the Denny Hastert affair.

Where are the checks and balances? Where are the muckraking reporters? After all, this guy was a Republican – meaning the press has no excuses!

The next thing that comes to mind for me is how a schoolteacher and wrestling coach turned politician could earn enough to pay off $3.5 million to a blackmailer.

I found the answer, and it’s not surprising. He turned a handsome profit on some Illinois farmland that he just happened to secure an earmark for the federal government to buy up to turn into a controversial highway.

After thinking more about this, the big question I have is whether anyone else was blackmailing this guy while he was speaker of the House. I mean, this stuff is worse than “House of Cards.”

It also makes me wonder even more who’s got the goods on current Speaker John Boehner and current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Is it even possible for a decent man or woman of integrity and moral character to achieve high office in America anymore?

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And how was he finally caught?

He was indicted not for the sexual offense against a male student during his teaching and coaching career, but rather for doing something that shouldn’t even be illegal – something every American should be repulsed by.

The feds got him on a financial “crime.” Do you know what that was? Taking his own money out of his own bank account. Keep in mind, after being questioned by his banks, he meticulously avoided withdrawing the kind of sums that would automatically send up red flags – under $10,000 at a time. But that pattern of significant cash withdrawals caused his own bank to turn him into the feds for investigation. When he lied to the feds, his goose was cooked.

Now think about that.

You think that’s your money in your bank?

You think it’s none of the government’s business what you do with it as long as you file income tax reports?

Think again.

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Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2

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Isn't it blackmail for the person getting the money? And isn't blackmail a crime as well?

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