May 29, 2015, - 2:52 am
Dennis Hastert: What Did He Pay $3.5 Milln to Hush? CONFIRMED: Child Molester; Obama Justice Works w Blackmailer/Extorter
**** UPDATE: Looks like I nailed it on Denny Hastert nailing underage boys on the wrestling team. Like I said, he was doing his own “rasslin’.” You know what the predictable fallout on this will be: liberals and the media will say, “One of the only Republican Speakers of the House in modern times was a gay child molester.” They will milk this the way they are milking the Duggar child molester scandal. ****
Federal Indictee Denny Hastert w/ His Pals Nancy Pelostic Surgery & Orange John Boehner
What kind of “past misconduct” would former House Speaker John Dennis “Denny” Hastert pay $3.5 million to keep quiet? I have my informed theories (discussed below), as it could only be a very few, specific things. Regardless, I really wish my dear, late former employer, Congressman Philip M. Crane was around to see this RINO jerk, who blocked him every step of the way, get his. What’s unusual here and made clear by the Dennis Hastert indictment (read the indictment) is that the Justice Department is working with Hastert’s blackmailer/extorter, when usually it’s the other way around. Given that, here’s what I think Denny Hastert did . . . .
Denny Hastert hasn’t been in public office since 2008. He’s basically a nobody (except on Capitol Hill, where he functioned as a lobbyist), who hasn’t been in the news for years. But he’s a well-paid nobody who has the ability to access and pay $3.5 million to someone who, according to the Hastert indictment, has known Hastert “for most of his life.” Prior to serving in Congress, Hastert was a high school teacher and men’s wrestling coach in Yorkville, and the blackmailer who extorted Hastert of $3.5 million is from Yorkville. Think about it: what prior “past misconduct” is so bad that it would cause you–or any person–to agree to pay $3.5 million to the alleged victim to keep the conduct quiet? The clues are screaming out the obvious.
In our Kardashian-porn-star-turned-multi-millionaire/Bruce-Jenner-sex-change/teen-babymama/gay-rights society of today, there’s very little behavior left that is unacceptable and for which it would be better to pay 3.5 million bucks than to have everyone know. And I think we all know what that is. I think it’s quite apparent, and, so, I’m going to say what you and I are thinking but nobody is outright saying because there isn’t any proof yet. I believe that Hastert probably had some illicit relationship or illicit sexual behavior with a minor. And, in a generally accepted viewpoint (a viewpoint gay activists would probably claim is “homophobic”), it’s far less acceptable for a male adult to have engaged in pedophilia and molestation of a boy than of a girl. If it were molestation of a girl and possible pregnancy, I just don’t think he’d go to all this trouble to pay out $3.5 million to keep it quiet.
I have a lot of friends who were in high school wrestling, and many of you, my dear readers and friends, were probably wrestlers, too. So, don’t take it personally when I joke (but only halfway) that wrestling is the gayest sport alive (except WNBA basketball, which isn’t a real sport). Boys in tight singlets rolling around on each other–that’s must-see stuff for child molesters. Hastert was a wrestling coach. He was in a position of authority with young boys, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he took advantage of it. It’s possible that maybe he had an affair with a young female student of his, and maybe got her pregnant. But I’ll bet this case involves a guy. Has to be. Why else would a male Republican RINO former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representative pay $3.5 million in hush money? Not for sleeping with a pretty co-ed. And don’t forget: Hastert was the Speaker of the House who kicked out Mark Foley for having a gay relationship with an underaged House Page. That makes this all the more so something he wanted to keep quiet.\
You may say, “Well, so what? It’s just a he said, he said (or maybe she said) situation, so why pay off someone with no proof it ever happened?” Well, the indictment states that Hastert met with the blackmailer on several occasions in 2010, and that, at these meetings, the two of them discussed Hastert’s past misconduct. The indictment also says that Hastert agreed at these meetings to make the large hush money payments to the blackmailer. The blackmailer/extorter probably taped the conversations on his/her smart phone (and later turned them over to the FBI when cutting a plea deal with the feds). So, Hastert was an idiot for meeting with this person from his past. Otherwise, there would likely be no proof of anything (unless the misconduct was sex with an underaged female and it produced a child, in which case a DNA test would be the proof).
If my hunch about the misconduct is correct, Hastert wouldn’t have had to worry about criminal prosecution for the past misconduct. Illinois’ statute of limitations for child molestation would have long expired for Hastert if he molested and/or raped an underaged kid. In 2013, Illinois’ then-Governor Quinn signed legislation abolishing the state’s statute of limitations for child sexual abuse, but anyone accused of that sort of conduct beforehand would be grandfathered in.
The Justice Department makes it clear in the indictment that it worked with the blackmailing extorter (identified in the indictment as “Individual A”) against Hastert. This makes it more likely that the “misconduct” for which Hastert was being blackmailed was so heinous that the feds felt they had no choice but to work with this person. Usually, it’s the other way around: the Justice Department works with the blackmailee/extortee to stop the blackmailer/extorter. That’s generally good public policy. But if the behavior for which someone is being blackmailed and extorted is past child molestation and/or sexual abuse, that’s a different story–conduct so heinous that the perpetrator must face justice in some way, shape, or form. That’s why I think that’s what’s going on here. Otherwise, there is no way that the Justice Department–even the Republican-hunting Obama Justice Department–would work with someone who was actively extorting $3.5 million from someone. No way.
Denny Hastert wasn’t indicted for the “past misconduct.” Unless it were murder, the statute of limitations has run, as I noted. But he was charged for “structuring” because he did what drug dealers and Islamic terrorists do to evade detection: he began removing amounts of $10,000 or less from his bank accounts, to avoid federal reporting requirements, including SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports) sent to the feds by his banks. That’s called “structuring,” and it’s illegal. And the banks did report him to the feds.
I have my reservations with these laws. I believe that if you earned your money legally, you should be able to withdraw as much as you want and it shouldn’t be anybody’s business. It’s your money. But I also know that, without these reporting laws (and, many time, even with them), terrorists and drug dealers withdraw large amounts to finance illicity operations and activities. And we need to be able to track them. I know from federal agent friends of mine who’ve investigated Islamic terrorism funding that these SARs they receive from the banks are invaluable. It’s when the feds don’t look at the reports (which is quite often), that they miss important information of note.
Hastert was also indicted for lying to the FBI agents who interviewed him, claiming he kept the cash for himself and wasn’t using it for something else (such as hush money). I’m surprised that Hastert, who worked for a law firm and was identified as a lawyer on its letterhead, would even talk to the FBI. He didn’t have to. But he did. And if he was represented by a lawyer at the time (which I doubt), he got bad advice (or didn’t follow good advice).
My late boss and dear friend, Congressman Philip M. Crane, knew Denny Hastert well. Crane, one of the few true conservatives to serve in Congress, spent years on the House Ways and Means Committee. I was at his 1994 victory party in his Illinois district, back when I was still in grad school in Wisconsin. He never thought he’d see the day when Republicans would take over Congress. He became the ranking Republican on Ways and Means. A few years later, when Hastert became Speaker, and it was Crane’s turn and right via seniority to become Chairman of Ways and Means, Hastert repeatedly and vehemently blocked it. Hastert also refused to help Phil Crane when he was in tough re-election bids, even though Crane always campaigned for Hastert and they were supposed to support each other as fellow Republicans from Illinois.
That’s because Hastert was always a big government RINO and fraud. He was chummy with Nancy Pelosi and Orange John Boehner. Hastert didn’t want someone like Crane, who was a true cutter of taxes and spending, to take over. He didn’t want a revolutionary thinker, who wanted to simplify the tax code into a flat tax and lower all tax rates across the board. Haastert didn’t want someone smarter and more telegenic. And so on. So Hastert changed the rules and threw seniority out the window. And he did other things to make sure Crane never headed Ways and Means, such as giving anti-Crane Members of Congress more than one vote. The Cranes always told me what a snake Denny Hastert was. And, now, we know they were likely more right than even they knew.
Sadly, my friends, Congressman Phil Crane and his wife Arlene, have both passed on (Congressman Crane died in November). But from above, I can hear them saying, told ya so.
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Let’s hope that Denny Hastert had $3.5 million to give away to a blackmailer because he earned it from being a lobbyist AFTER he was done as Speaker. If he made the $3.5 million while he was still in the House, then we have another matter entirely. You don’t get rich in the House unless you’re a crook. And, sadly, the House is more rife with those than we know.
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What do you think is going on here? What kind of behavior would cause you to pay $3.5 million in hush money? Can you think of another scenario than the one I’ve presented here? The fact that the indictment doesn’t say what the past misconduct was, speaks volumes (that the behavior was so atrocious and sick that the Justice Department wanted to try and shield the blackmailing extorter from it–from the public knowing he/she was a victim of that type of misconduct.
Did the former wrestling coach do some of his own “rasslin'” with an underaged boy on the team? If it’s not that, then it’s something just as bad. And few things are.
Again, we don’t know what the past misconduct was, and this is all speculation. But . . .
Do the math.
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It’s the cannibalism. That’s what made it worth 3.5 mil.
S M Tenneshaw on May 29, 2015 at 4:00 am