Thursday, May 28, 2015

Wow. This is a surprise. A sting operation with a friend.

It sounds odd though. I wonder what the specific are.

May 28, 2015
By Everett Rosenfeld

...Hastert, (click here) a Republican who served as a congressman for Illinois, was the Speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007. 

The indictment against him alleges that Hastert agree in 2010 to provide someone with $3.5 million in order to "compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct" against that individual. He then allegedly withdrew about $1.7 million in cash from different accounts between 2010 and 2014 in order to provide the money to that person....

...The person to whom Hastert was doling out payments "has been a resident of Yorkville, Illinois" and has known the former Speaker for most of his or her life, according to the indictment. Additionally, it says, that individual spoke with Hastert in 2010 about "past misconduct" that had occurred "years earlier."...