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Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert Reports to Prison in Wheelchair
Source: ABC News
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert Reports to Prison in Wheelchair
By LEE FERRAN Jun 22, 2016, 1:32 PM ET
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert reported to prison today in a wheelchair to serve his 15-month sentence for financial crimes related to purported decades-old, repeated sexual abuse of minors.
Hastert arrived two hours before his scheduled deadline at a federal medical prison in Minnesota where the 74-year-old is expected to serve out his sentence, ABC News’ Chicago affiliate WLS reported.
The man once second in line for the presidency pleaded guilty in October to “structuring currency transactions” that prosecutors said was a cover-up for the payment of hush money to a man Hastert sexually abused decades before.
During his case, prosecutors alleged that Hastert abused several boys when he was a wrestling coach at an Illinois high school in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Prosecutors went into disturbing detail about some of Hastert’s purported behavior.
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By LEE FERRAN Jun 22, 2016, 1:32 PM ET
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert reported to prison today in a wheelchair to serve his 15-month sentence for financial crimes related to purported decades-old, repeated sexual abuse of minors.
Hastert arrived two hours before his scheduled deadline at a federal medical prison in Minnesota where the 74-year-old is expected to serve out his sentence, ABC News’ Chicago affiliate WLS reported.
The man once second in line for the presidency pleaded guilty in October to “structuring currency transactions” that prosecutors said was a cover-up for the payment of hush money to a man Hastert sexually abused decades before.
During his case, prosecutors alleged that Hastert abused several boys when he was a wrestling coach at an Illinois high school in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Prosecutors went into disturbing detail about some of Hastert’s purported behavior.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/speaker-house-dennis-hastert-report-prison/story?id=40026897
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