BOOM! Hastert Paid Off Man Over Sexual Abus E

[zoegirltx]

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ -paid-off-man-over-childhood-sexual-abuse

talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/dennis-hastert-sexual-misconduct-report


wo anonymous federal law enforcement officials said that indicted former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) allegedly agreed to pay out $3.5 million in hush money to cover up sexual misconduct with another man, The Los Angeles Times reported Friday.



Hastert was indicted Thursday on charges of structuring bank withdrawals to avoid federal reporting requirements and lying to the FBI about those withdrawals. The former speaker allegedly had withdrawn $1.7 million in cash out of $3.5 million he agreed to pay an unidentified individual in compensation for "prior misconduct" on Hastert's part that had occurred years earlier.



One anonymous official told The Los Angeles Times that "Individual A," the other person is identified in the indictment, is a man.



The official added that the misconduct dates back to Hastert's time as a high school teacher and coach in Yorkville, Illinois, where "Individual A" is from, and that Hastert was making the payments to conceal a past sexual relationship with him. The second anonymous official told the Times that the "misconduct" alleged in the indictment was sexual abuse.



The Los Angeles Times could not reach Hastert or his attorneys for comment, while Hastert's own lobbying firm declined comment.



This post has been updated.

[zoegirltx]

Well, at least it's not kids/minors!?!?!

[zoegirltx]

does blackmail every really work? I feel like you pay somebody & they could always demand more $ or spill your secret or somebody find out some other way.

[decemberwedding07]

Yep. That's pretty much what I guessed. Unfortunately there are way too many coaches out there who have done the exact same thing.

[decemberwedding07]

May 29, 2015 14:49:48 GMT -5 zoegirltx said:

Well, at least it's not kids/minors!?!?!

Do we know that for sure? They said it was abuse, and they referred to his victim as a man, but it wasn't clear to me if the victim was a man at the time, or if he's a man now, but was a boy at the time.

[heyjude]

May 29, 2015 14:49:48 GMT -5 zoegirltx said:

Well, at least it's not kids/minors!?!?!

Why would you assume it's not?!

[heyjude]

And AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[CallingAllAngels]

May 29, 2015 14:51:39 GMT -5 decemberwedding07 said:

May 29, 2015 14:49:48 GMT -5 zoegirltx said:

Well, at least it's not kids/minors!?!?!

Do we know that for sure? They said it was abuse, and they referred to his victim as a man, but it wasn't clear to me if the victim was a man at the time, or if he's a man now, but was a boy at the time.

Yeah, I am guessing the man was a minor when it happened.

[pixy0stix]

May 29, 2015 14:49:48 GMT -5 zoegirltx said:

Well, at least it's not kids/minors!?!?!

um. It seems it was a kid he coached.

[elleblue]

May 29, 2015 14:49:48 GMT -5 zoegirltx said:

Well, at least it's not kids/minors!?!?!

Are we sure this individual was an adult at the time of the relationship though? All I see is a reference to a past relationship and then stating the "misconduct" was sexual abuse, so it seems to implicate that it wouldn't be over a consensual relationship. Obviously I hope I'm wrong. 

[heyjude]

Sexual abuse and high school screams a minor.

[zoegirltx]

well....bad for the kid/minor, just like somebody called in the other thread.

[heyjude]

This is the most amoral despicable political party in the history of ever.

[Velar Fricative]

Wait, how do we know the individual was not a minor at the time? He may be a man NOW, but perhaps he wasn't at the time.

ETA: Or what decemberwedding07 and everyone else just said.

[zoegirltx]

May 29, 2015 14:55:07 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Wait, how do we know the individual was not a minor at the time? He may be a man NOW, but perhaps he wasn't at the time.

ETA: Or what decemberwedding07 said.

yea, i guess i assumed it was a homosexual relationship with another coach...not a minor

[Velar Fricative]

In any case, how despicable.

[decemberwedding07]

May 29, 2015 14:56:16 GMT -5 zoegirltx said:

May 29, 2015 14:55:07 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Wait, how do we know the individual was not a minor at the time? He may be a man NOW, but perhaps he wasn't at the time.

ETA: Or what decemberwedding07 said.

yea, i guess i assumed it was a homosexual relationship with another coach...not a minor

See, I'm not inclined to think it was an adult because to me, that's the kind of money you pay when you're worried you could go to jail. There have been enough R politicians have gay relationships surface for him to know that he would be able to have a life after it came out. $3.5 million is a LOT of money. That's the kind of money you pay when you know something would finish you forever, like sexual abuse of a minor.

[josieposy]

I'm confused. So it happened when he was a teacher 30+ years ago, and the payments have been ongoing? How did this get caught?

Someone catch me up please!

[heyjude]

Just the tip, of the iceberg:

Investigators considered adding a second alleged Hastert victim to the indictment, but chose not to do so, a source familiar with the matter told BuzzFeed News.
Read more at wonkette.com/586945/yep-ex-speaker-denny-hastert-paid-hush-money-to-cover-up-kid-diddling-allegedly#1mXE8hsvrJfzGs13.99

[IIOY]

I think we all knew what this was going to be about. Maybe he can call the Duggars for amoral support.

[LadySusan]

May 29, 2015 14:55:02 GMT -5 heyjude said:

This is the most amoral despicable political party in the history of ever.

Don't gloat!  Next thing we know, Clinton and Sanders will be accused of soliciting underaged prostitutes provided by Prince William at the Notorious RBG's house.

knocks on wood

[heyjude]

Gross Old Pedophiles








(I can't take credit for this one, unlike Touching Little Children, but wanted to pass it along the Internet universe).

[ttt]

time.com/3901774/dennis-hastert-c-span/


A C-SPAN caller’s mysterious question to Dennis Hastert last year has taken on a new meaning in light of recent allegations that the former House Speaker illegally paid $3.5 million in hush money to an unidentified resident of Yorkville.

The call was placed during a 2014 interview on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.”

“Hello, Denny,” said the caller, who identified himself as Bruce. “Do you remember me from Yorkville?”

The caller then laughs and hangs up the phone, and the interview moves on without further comment. Footage of the call garnered newfound attention after a federal grand jury indicted Hastert on Thursday for allegedly paying an acquaintance in his hometown of Yorkville hush money over “prior misconduct.”

[zoegirltx]

Rachel maddow had this last night too

We don`t know what that is, but here`s two things to consider: this is going to sound like it`s really out of left field, but it`s a connection
to this that seems like we ought to consider given this -- given the opacity of the indictment on this point.
Do you remember the Sibel Edmonds case? She was an FBI-translator- turned-whistleblower who said during the George W. Bush era that she had
been fired when she tried to expose legal and scandalous things that she had overheard in her job as an FBI translator. One of the things, one of the lower-profile things that she alleged
in the year 2005 was that she had overheard Turkish wiretap targets bragging that they were secretly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to
the then-speaker of the House, Denny Hastert. That was one of the allegations made by Sibel Edmonds. I do not know what to make of those allegations but those allegations exist from a decade ago. They may now be cast in a new light given this
indictment.

[ESF]

May 29, 2015 15:06:58 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Just the tip, of the iceberg:

Investigators considered adding a second alleged Hastert victim to the indictment, but chose not to do so, a source familiar with the matter told BuzzFeed News.
Read more at wonkette.com/586945/yep-ex-speaker-denny-hastert-paid-hush-money-to-cover-up-kid-diddling-allegedly#1mXE8hsvrJfzGs13.99

If there's one victim, it's not an insane assumption to think there's just one victim.

If there are two victims, I'm more inclined to believe there's even more.

[NewOrleans]

Oh geez. Wtf?

[gpw]

May 29, 2015 15:22:49 GMT -5 ttt said:

time.com/3901774/dennis-hastert-c-span/


A C-SPAN caller’s mysterious question to Dennis Hastert last year has taken on a new meaning in light of recent allegations that the former House Speaker illegally paid $3.5 million in hush money to an unidentified resident of Yorkville.

The call was placed during a 2014 interview on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.”

“Hello, Denny,” said the caller, who identified himself as Bruce. “Do you remember me from Yorkville?”

The caller then laughs and hangs up the phone, and the interview moves on without further comment. Footage of the call garnered newfound attention after a federal grand jury indicted Hastert on Thursday for allegedly paying an acquaintance in his hometown of Yorkville hush money over “prior misconduct.”

OMG.  I bet he had actual shit in his pants after that interview. 

[Michelle]

May 29, 2015 14:50:26 GMT -5 zoegirltx said:

does blackmail every really work? I feel like you pay somebody & they could always demand more $ or spill your secret or somebody find out some other way.

Edit - PDQ

I think people get really desperate and just hope it will.

I know someone who was getting blackmailed because someone found out about a medical condition he had that he felt would damage his reputation if learned. So he had a very creative scheme for stealing from his company that went undetected for a year, using the money to pay off the blackmailer.

The company found out and he will be prosecuted. His reputation and career are destroyed as a result.

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

This doesn't surprise me at all.

Also, for some reason his name is ringing a distant bell about another scandal a few years ago. I don't usually remember names, but for some reason his is in my memory. Help anyone?

[emisi]