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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInmate 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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peace13
(11,076 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Shouldn't ever be free again, that would seal the deal
LiberalFighter
(50,783 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I hope he rots.
OKDem08
(1,340 posts)This behaviour tends to be on-going through adulthood, unless coerced/compelled to stop. Sickening.
Lunabell
(6,046 posts)Rethuglicans are some of the most perverted humans on the planet. And they call us gay people perverted.