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Dennis Hastert paid $1.7 million over four years but stopped the payments after the FBI questioned him in 2014. Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse reached a tentative ...

The man who has sued former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert, seeking the unpaid balance of an alleged $3.5 million hush-money pact over decades-old sexual abuse, will be named publicly during an ...

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves the Dirksen Federal Court House in a wheelchair after his sentencing on April 27, 2016 in Chicago, Ill. Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ...

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 ...

Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert departs the federal courthouse in Chicago April 27 after his sentencing on federal banking charges. Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison in the ...

Dennis Hastert: former speaker of the U.S. House, disgraced son of Illinois, child molester. This state has said good riddance to plenty of sleazy politicians. Corruption is a plague here. The ...

Calling Dennis Hastert a "serial child molester," a federal judge sentenced the former U.S. House Speaker to 15 months in prison on Wednesday for charges related to sex abuse.

Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison in the ...