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John Dennis Hastert ( / ˈhæstərt /; born January 2, 1942) is an American former politician, educator, convicted felon and child sex offender who represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. [1]
Apr 28, 2016 · Mr. Hastert, 74, who made an unlikely rise from beloved small-town wrestling coach in Illinois to speaker of the House in Washington, sat slouched in a wheelchair in a federal courtroom...
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Apr 26, 2016 · Dennis Hastert (born January 2, 1942, Aurora, Illinois, U.S.) is an American Republican politician who served (1987–2007) in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007. In 2016 he pled guilty to violating banking laws and publicly admitted to having sexually abused teenaged boys several decades earlier.
Sep 15, 2021 · YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse reached a tentative out-of-court settlement Wednesday over Hastert’s refusal to pay the man $1.8 million — the outstanding balance in hush money that the Illinois Republican agreed to pay the man in 2010.
Jun 22, 2016 · CHICAGO — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrived at a Minnesota prison on Wednesday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that the Illinois...
Sep 15, 2021 · CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was for years known primarily for rising from political obscurity in rural Illinois to spending eight years in the nation’s third-highest office. Then came a federal indictment in a hush-money case centered on sex abuse allegations.
Apr 27, 2016 · Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison at the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Wednesday. In addition, Hastert was sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to not have contact with the victims.
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