Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty final October to one count of illegally structuring bank withdrawals,and will be sentenced to up to five years in prison by a federal judge later this week. But behind this technical-sounding crime is something truly horrific: According to the feds, the structured bank withdrawals were payoffs to students Hastert molested while coaching wrestling decades ago. He isn’t being prosecuted for those crimes because the statue of limitations in Illinois forbids it.
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Source: gawker.com