Feds: Abuse Claim Drove Hush Money
Yorkville, Ill. —The indictment of former House speaker Dennis Hastert was triggered by his alleged effort to hide payments of hush money to a male student he allegedly sexually molested decades ago, a federal law enforcement official said Friday. The indictment asserts that the acts Hastert wanted to conceal date back to a time when he was a teacher and coach in Illinois before entering politics in the early 1980s, the official said....
