Ex-U.S. House Speaker Hastert to report to prison June 22: judge
Source: Reuters
Ex-U.S. House Speaker Hastert to report to prison June 22: judge
May 19, 2016
(Reuters) - Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, once one of the country's most powerful politicians, will report to a federal prison next month for a financial crime linked to sexual abuse of wrestlers he coached decades ago, a federal judge said on Thursday.
In a one-page court order, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Durkin said Hastert is to "surrender to the designated institution" no later than 2 p.m. local time to begin serving a 15-month sentence.
The name of the prison where Hastert will serve time was not identified. A Bureau of Prisons spokesman could not be immediately reached to identify the prison. Thomas Green, Hastert's attorney, declined to comment, according to his spokeswoman Kellie Mullins. He previously said Hastert would not appeal his sentence.
During a hearing last month, Durkin called Hastert, 74, a serial sex abuser in handing down a sentence that was longer than the zero to six months recommended by federal prosecutors. Durkin said it would have been even longer if it were not for Hastert's age and poor health.
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He will take the record away from John Mitchell.
(but only because his other fellow convicted Republican felon, Spiro Agnew, talked his way out of jail time)
immediately in front of the high school boys' shower room when he was a coach.
Damned creepy!
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