Dennis Hastert admits to sexual abuse Moments before the court’s sentencing, Hastert admitted for the first time that he sexually abused students while serving as the wrestling coach for ...

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrives at the federal courthouse, June 9, 2015, in Chicago for his arraignment on federal charges that he broke federal banking laws and lied about the money ...

CHICAGO — Former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from a federal prison 13 months after he began serving a sentence for a bank fraud conviction linked to his effort to buy ...

President George W. Bush, center, is applauded by Vice President Dick Cheney, left, and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, right, during Bush's State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in ...

Dennis Hastert pleads guilty in hush-money case 03:51. CHICAGO --Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty Wednesday to evading banking laws in a hush-money scheme, averting a trial by agreeing to a deal with ...

Update: On Wednesday afternoon, right on schedule, former House speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) surrendered himself to prison, the latest development in an incredible fall from grace for a man who ...

Former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert is banned from having contact with anyone under 18 unless an adult is present who’s aware that he pleaded guilty in a hush money case related to the sexual ...

Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) is expected to walk into a federal courthouse Wednesday morning in downtown Chicago and plead guilty to… ...

Dennis Hastert in 1985 as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, where he served from 1980 to 1986. Seth Perlman/AP. Hastert is sworn in as speaker of the House of Representatives on ...

CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago on Tuesday ordered that Dennis Hastert never be left alone with anyone under 18 unless another adult is present who is aware of the former US House speaker ...

2:33 p.m.: An earlier version of this post said Hastert was indicted on a charge of paying hush money. He was indicted on a charge of trying to evade banking regulations. The person Hastert is ...