Hastert to assault victim: Pay back $1.7M in hush money

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Hastert to assault victim: Pay back $1.7M in hush money

Michael Tarm and Don Babwin, Associated Press Updated 7:54 pm, Thursday, January 19, 2017



CHICAGO (AP) — Imprisoned former House speaker Dennis Hastert wants one of his sexual abuse victims to return the $1.7 million in hush money the Illinois Republican paid him over several years, according to a court filing this week in an ongoing civil case.

The document is a counter claim to the victim's breach-of-contract lawsuit that he filed last year, arguing that Hastert owed him $1.8 million — what he said was the unpaid balance of an unwritten $3.5 million hush-money deal.

Hastert, 75, is serving a 15-month sentence in a federal prison for violating banking laws as he withdrew thousands of dollars, starting in 2010, to pay the victim, abruptly halting the payments after the FBI interviewed Hastert in late 2014.

Documents in Hastert's federal criminal case say he abused the victim — referred to in filings only as "Individual A" — when he was 14 in the late 1970s when Hastert coached wrestling at suburban Chicago's Yorkville High School.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Hastert-wants-assault-victim-to-return-1-7M-in-10869975.php

[tenorly]

1. The very image of today's GOPee.

And that's their "warm and fuzzy" side.

[Feeling the Bern]

2. Chutzpah with a side of scumbag.

[George II]

3. "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

[cstanleytech]

4. He is a Republican so the answer is a pretty obvious one and its not "yes".

[cate94]

5. How low can you go?

All the way to the floor....

[Skittles]

6. I'd say taking hush money instead of taking Hastert down was pretty low, too

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[dionysus]

14. Perhaps... but then again the only thing that hurts these scumbags is losing money..

They have no dignity, you can't shame them... cash is all they care about...

[keithbvadu2]

7. Child molester Hastert cheats his victim on the contract.

Looks like Hastert learned from Trump not paying his contractors.

Reminder to the jury on Hastert's suit::::::::: jury nullification.

[herding cats]

8. Hey, it's not an election year.

I'm sure this was approved by his GOP cronies.

[Tikki]

9. I was never molested by an adult as a child, but I bet that million+ would go a long....

in getting the kind of therapy that young man needed.

Tikki

[wishstar]

10. I don't think victim was legally obligated to keep silent about a crime

[Dave Starsky]

11. I guess when everyone knows you're a shit stain...

You really don't have anything to lose.

[brooklynite]

12. Honestly, I understand his position...

...if you can't trust the person you pay hush money to to keep quiet, what's the point?

[JudyM]

13. I don't see how either party can get any payment here since the contract wasn't legal to begin with.