Details of sex abuse could mean prison time for Hastert

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By MICHAEL TARM

CHICAGO (AP) — When Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty last year to breaking banking laws, sentencing guidelines suggested that the former House speaker would probably serve no more than six months in prison for making illegal withdrawals to conceal a dark secret from his past.

But after prosecutors lifted a veil of secrecy from the case, the judge made comments that suggested he might impose a longer sentence, potentially putting Hastert behind bars for several years, because of allegations that he molested at least four student athletes when he was a high school wrestling coach.

Word that one of the accusers will speak at the sentencing hearing is sure to turn up the pressure on Judge Thomas M. Durkin to reject defense calls for probation and send the 74-year-old Republican to prison.

If that happens, Hastert, who was second in the line of succession to the presidency after the vice president and the nation's longest-serving GOP speaker, would become one of the highest ranking politicians in American history ever to be incarcerated.

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[rurallib]

1. I sure hope so.

I t would be nice to see someone who used their position of authority locked up. Especially someone who also held a public trust.

Well past time to put these snakes in jail and throw away the key.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Thank goodness they got him for banking violations.

And because the sex-abuse was related to the banking violations they can consider it.