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Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted on Federal Charges

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J. Dennis Hastert, the longest serving Republican speaker in 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 because of “past misconduct” against an unnamed individual from their hometown west of Chicago.

Hastert, 73, who has been a high-paid lobbyist in Washington since his 2007 retirement, schemed to mask more than $950,000 in withdrawals from various accounts that violated federal banking laws that require disclosure of large cash transactions, according to a seven-page indictment delivered by a grand jury in Chicago.

Neither Hastert nor his legal team has issued a statement about the charges on Thursday afternoon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...former-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-indicted/

FBI putting in dat work.
 
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