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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 12:47 PM Jun 2016

Inmate No. 47991-424: Hastert to report to prison this week

By MICHAEL TARM
Jun. 20, 2016 11:58 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert must report to a federal prison in southeastern Minnesota this week to begin serving a 15-month sentence in his hush-money case, one that revealed the 74-year-old sexually abused at least four boys decades ago when he coached wrestling at a suburban Chicago high school.

When he enters the prison gates, which he must do by Wednesday afternoon, the nation's longest-serving GOP speaker who for eight years was second in the line of succession to the presidency will be known to prison guards as Inmate No. 47991-424.

A look at what's expected to happen in the coming days and what awaits Hastert, who will become one of the highest-ranking U.S. politicians in history to do prison time:

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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4cd6f51fb71a490c975ef7f8c8237178/inmate-no-47991-424-hastert-report-prison-soon

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Inmate No. 47991-424: Hastert to report to prison this week (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2016 OP
Post removed Post removed Jun 2016 #1
Finally! nt peace13 Jun 2016 #2
hopefully the rapist piece of shit will die in there snooper2 Jun 2016 #3
If his portrait is anywhere in Congress it should be labeled Inmate No. 47991-424. LiberalFighter Jun 2016 #4
such a puny sentence for the horrors he put four boys through... probably scarred them for life secondwind Jun 2016 #5
Good. bigwillq Jun 2016 #6
I bet there are more victims out there OKDem08 Jun 2016 #7
THe old fart doesn't even get punished for the lives he screwed up. Lunabell Jun 2016 #8

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snooper2

(30,151 posts)
3. hopefully the rapist piece of shit will die in there
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 12:57 PM
Jun 2016

Shouldn't ever be free again, that would seal the deal

LiberalFighter

(50,783 posts)
4. If his portrait is anywhere in Congress it should be labeled Inmate No. 47991-424.
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 01:13 PM
Jun 2016
The Biographical Directory of the United States of Congress should also be edited to include his conviction and prison time.

OKDem08

(1,340 posts)
7. I bet there are more victims out there
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 01:04 AM
Jun 2016

This behaviour tends to be on-going through adulthood, unless coerced/compelled to stop. Sickening.

Lunabell

(6,046 posts)
8. THe old fart doesn't even get punished for the lives he screwed up.
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 03:18 AM
Jun 2016

Rethuglicans are some of the most perverted humans on the planet. And they call us gay people perverted.

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