2021

September

Tuesday the 21st

• Two men allegedly abused by Dennis Hastert seek different ways to ease the emotional pain I am glad ‘James Doe’ was financially compensated for some of the pain inflicted on him. But is shaking someone down for hush money ever honorable?

Monday the 20th

• Column: Is Dennis Hastert’s civil case agreement this sordid story’s finale? Back in October of 2015, I wrote about how the guilty plea Dennis Hastert had just entered for illegally structuring cash withdrawals from a bank was hardly the ending to the story that had led to his swift and salacious downfall.

Thursday the 16th

• Former Evangelical GOP Leader Settles Sex-Abuse Suit The Wheaton alumnus allegedly stopped paying his victim.

Wednesday the 15th

• Hastert settles child sexual abuse payments suit Dennis Hastert paid $1.7 million over four years but stopped the payments after the FBI questioned him in 2014.
• Ex-House speaker Hastert settles child sexual abuse payments suit

2016

April

Wednesday the 27th

• Former House speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) described as 'Serial Child Molester' by judge fined and sentenced to 15 months

  • SEXUAL VIOLENCE
  • SAVE THE CHILDREN