Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted Over Alleged Secret Payments

Mike DeBonis, Paul Kane, Mark Berman, Washington Post
Fri, 05/29/2015 - 6:11am

YORKVILLE, Ill. — J. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in the history of the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed person to cover up “past misconduct.”Read full article >>

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Topics:  yorkville   ill    j dennis hastert   republican   u.s house   speaker   indicted   
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