Hastert to assault victim: Pay back $1.7M in hush money
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
(2,037 posts)And that's their "warm and fuzzy" side.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)cstanleytech
(26,290 posts)cate94
(2,810 posts)All the way to the floor....
Skittles
(153,159 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 21, 2017, 04:29 PM - Edit history (1)
dionysus
(26,467 posts)They have no dignity, you can't shame them... cash is all they care about...
keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Looks like Hastert learned from Trump not paying his contractors.
Reminder to the jury on Hastert's suit::::::::: jury nullification.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I'm sure this was approved by his GOP cronies.
Tikki
(14,557 posts)in getting the kind of therapy that young man needed.
Tikki
wishstar
(5,269 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)You really don't have anything to lose.
brooklynite
(94,520 posts)...if you can't trust the person you pay hush money to to keep quiet, what's the point?