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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
"J. Dennis Hastert, a once-obscure Illinois congressman who rose to become the longest-serving Republican speaker of the House before falling from grace in a sex abuse scandal that came to light after he left government, has died. He was 84.
The coroner’s office in Kendall County, Ill., was notified of Mr. Hastert’s death on Saturday evening, according to a statement. He was pronounced dead at his home while under hospice care, the coroner said.
Mr. Hastert, a former teacher and wrestling coach, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison in April 2016 for violating federal banking laws, having made millions of dollars in secret payments to cover up sexual misconduct with a male student. He was released in July 2017 and from then on lived out of the public eye despite his earlier prominence in Washington.
Mr. Hastert admitted at his sentencing that he sexually abused teenage wrestlers as young as 14 whom he coached at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Ill., where he worked from 1965 to 1981. The federal judge who sentenced Mr. Hastert called him “a serial child molester.” —New York Times
And there in a nutshell is the GOP. Guardians of Pedophiles. Look at the current crop of "party leaders". If they're not doing it themselves, they're helping to cover it up. Looking at you for both, Mike Johnson. And John Thune, I hope that big office has been worth your soul.
Time to get rid of every stinking one of them.
