Former US House Speaker Hastert Released From Prison In Minnesota

[deminks]

Source: AP

CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from prison in Minnesota and transferred to a Chicago re-entry facility, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records Tuesday.

Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison in April 2016 in banking violations case that revealed accusations he had sexually abused teenagers while coaching wrestling at a suburban Chicago high school.

Hastert is no longer at the Minnesota federal prison where he was serving his sentence, but is at a Chicago residential re-entry management office, the online records show. His release date is listed as Aug. 16.

The 75-year-old Republican pleaded guilty to violating federal banking law in seeking to pay $3.5 million in hush money to keep the sex abuse secret. He is one of the highest-ranking U.S. politicians to ever go to prison, where he was known as Inmate No. 47991-424.

When sentenced in April 2016 in Chicago, Hastert was branded “a serial child molester” by U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin. Hastert was never charged with child abuse because the statutes of limitation blocked prosecutors from filing charges dating back to when Hastert coached at Yorkville High School, from 1965 to 1981. Instead, Hastert was charged with violating banking laws.

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[Sedona]

1. What will 45 put him in charge of?

Kiddie Porn?

[DK504]

4. Internet security.

[Botany]

2. Hastert, Newt, Ken Starr, and Henery Hyde .....

.... class acts all of them.

[mountain grammy]

10. Serial perverts..

[forgotmylogin]

3. Interesting how the article very deftly avoids outright mentioning he was molesting boys.

It's completely inferrable since he was "coaching wrestling" and they get a quote from the "wrestler" in question who is now 53 years old. But here it says "teenagers". People who don't read the whole article might not get the whole implication.

Dunno if it's a thing, but I've just noticed that it seems every article always specifies "girls" with female victims, but they seem to employ more tact when it's men molesting boys.

Almost as if they are implying men molesting females is somehow more acceptable.

[Aristus]

5. Lock up your children, Illinois.

Denny Hastert wants to bring 'family values' to your town!...

[Old Vet]

6. This whole fucking story stinks ...........

I have had friends do more time in jail in addition to probation and parole for a ounce of weed. WTF. Even the judge called him a serial child molester, How he made it thru prison without a ass-kicking is beyond me. This whole story just angers me to no end, I personally know a few people where a simple charge just devastated there life.

[FakeNoose]

11. He served 15 months and that was the full sentence

... at a "country club" prison in Minnesota.

So yes the fix was on, since he never had to answer to charges of child molesting, only for bank fraud. It sure looks like he got off easy. But it saved the feds from having to go to trial because he pleaded guilty on a lesser charge.

I agree with you that is doesn't seem fair that regular American citizens would never get a deal like this.

[hughee99]

13. If "the fix" wasn't in, would Hastert have been charged with molesting children? n/t

[Old Vet]

14. Youre right, Its all they had that could stick...........

[Achilleaze]

7. republicans celebrate the return of another "family-values" role model

Don't you just want to puke when you hear republicans sneer at Americans for not embracing their degenerate toe-tapping, diaper-clad, hooker-boinking, money-grubbing, traitorous, russian-based, caviar-smeared "values."

[BumRushDaShow]

8. And to think the GOP still worship him

by continuing to invoke the "Hastert Rule", which insists on only passing legislation if it has a majority of GOP votes.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Imagine Joliet Jake getting out and met by Elwood.

Imagine Joliet Jake getting out and met by Elwood.

Only, it would be conservative pedophelia fan Milo Yiannopoulos waiting at the gate for Hastert.
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[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. Another former Rochester resident.......

former House Speaker, Denny Hastert, released from the Federal Medical prison in my current hometown. Several of my customers from the United States Public Health Service have said to ole Denny that molesting boys is not nice.

So much for GOP "Family Values".