Anonymous ID: 56dac2 Sept. 16, 2021, 7:33 a.m. No.14593924   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Ex-House Speaker settles child sexual abuse payments suit

 

YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse reached a tentative out-of-court settlement Wednesday over Hastert’s refusal to pay the man $1.8 million — the outstanding balance in hush money that the Illinois Republican agreed to pay the man in 2010.

 

Lawyers would not release details of the settlement, arrived at just days before a civil trial in the case that was set to start. It would have focused on a novel legal issue about whether Hastert’s verbal agreement to pay $3.5 million to buy the silence of a man he abused as a teenager amounted to a legally binding contract.

 

The man has been referred to only as James Doe in court papers since the breach of contract lawsuit was filed in 2016 in Illinois court in Yorkville, Hastert's hometown just west of Chicago.

 

The hush-money deal would eventually lead to a federal criminal case against Hastert five years later and to public disgrace for the a GOP stalwart who, for eight years as House speaker, was second in the line of succession to the presidency. In the federal case, prosecutors said Hastert sexually abused at least four male students between the ages of 14 and 17 throughout his years at Yorkville High School. Hastert was in his 20s and 30s.

 

Federal prosecutors said during criminal proceedings that the hush-money deal was voluntarily entered into and that the victim never sought to blackmail Hastert that he’d go public about the abuse. The abuse happened when the victim was a high school wrestler and the now 79-year-old Hastert was his coach.

 

Hastert paid $1.7 million over four years but stopped the payments after the FBI questioned him in 2014 about illegally concealing huge cash withdraws from his bank. After Hastert pleaded guilty to a banking charge and was sentenced to over a year in prion in 2016. He couldn’t be charged with sexual abuse because the statute of limitations had long since run out.

 

After Hastert's sentencing, the victim sued for breach of contract to force Hastert to pay the outstanding $1.8 million.

 

A Kendall County judge, Robert Pilmer, announced that the trial was off on Wednesday afternoon during a hearing scheduled earlier to discuss logistics of jury selection — which was supposed to begin Monday.

 

After the hearing, attorneys for both the plaintiff and Hastert declined to provide any settlement details, including whether Hastert agreed to pay the man and, if so, how much.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-house-speaker-settles-child-210440011.html

Anonymous ID: 56dac2 Sept. 16, 2021, 8:04 a.m. No.14594088   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4133 >>4165

>>14594010

Interesting. Random Friday Q posts

 

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Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 03/22/2019 22:42:48

[They] thought it was coming last Friday.

Ammunition spent.

Q

 

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Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 02/22/2019 11:15:35

>>5325292

Got popcorn?

Q

 

>>5325320

There sure are a lot of 'Q' comments on that Tweet POTUS just referred to.

Happy Friday!

Q

 

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Anonymous 10/31/2017 23:31:00

Get the popcorn, Friday & Saturday will deliver on the MAGA promise. POTUS knows he must clean house (gov't) in order to 'free up' and demonstrate who has authority in order to pass important legislation. This was always the priority. Remember, AG Sessions cannot look like an impartial player that is out to get all former Obama team members as we need him for other important work. All will come into focus and for anyone to think POTUS is not in control is kidding themselves. Also, he's 100% insulated with zero risk of impeachment (fact).

 

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Anonymous 11/02/2017 03:06:41

Before POTUS departs on Friday he will be sending an important message via Twitter. God bless.

Anonymous ID: 56dac2 Sept. 16, 2021, 8:25 a.m. No.14594205   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4235

>>14594190

Busy day? Reading down the comments, it's a fire on 7th andD

https://twitter.com/dcfireems/status/1438514181137854481

 

Working Fire 7th &D Sts SW. fire on the roof of a hi-rise building under construction.

Anonymous ID: 56dac2 Sept. 16, 2021, 8:32 a.m. No.14594257   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4271 >>4287

>>14594235

>L'Enfant

Pierre Charles L'Enfant (French: [pjɛʁ ʃɑʁl lɑfɑ]; August 2, 1754 – June 14, 1825) was a French-American military engineer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C. (capital city of the United States) known today as the L'Enfant Plan (1791).

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Charles_L'Enfant

Anonymous ID: 56dac2 Sept. 16, 2021, 9:03 a.m. No.14594455   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>14594423

Think they're gonna remove Bidan, with the Emergency Meeting today, and they cut him off from speaking the other day? His guy from down under comment…

They've made it very obvious his "Mental State" is declining, just as planned.

kek