By the way, why the hell is there a statute of limitations for molesting children?
It used to be seen as a less objectionable crime, and prosecutions for it were difficult. If it was as in the case of Dennis Hastert it would have been "He said/he said".
Murder is usually far easier to prove.
Well, at least they actually put him in prison.
Severity of a money-laundering charge depends upon the circumstances. Concealing assets from creditors of a bankrupt business is not quite in the same as money laundering of drug money or money involved in terrorism.
This is like putting a murderor away for tax evasion.
The only Republican Speaker to leave office without resigning in disgrace in the last 60 years....
Technically, he did resign in disgrace. Just several months after stepping down as Republican Leader.
Oh, I forgot about that. I had thought he didn't seek re-election. That's what Senate Majority Leader Frist did in 2006.
Frist thought that he would lose a re-election bid because he was so linked to a failed Administration. Nothing criminal.
....Something that we seem to be missing: the grown-ups whom Hastert had molested as teenagers were able to do far less damage to the US than some organization adept at blackmailing Americans with troubles like those of Hastert. He was Speaker of the House, holder of one of the most powerful offices in American politics.
Here is its emblem:
and its office building until it was formally disbanded in 1991:
It's the KGB. Dennis Hastert was a security risk.
