Fmr. House Speaker Hastert To Serve Time In Rochester Facility

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Dennis Hastert, the disgraced former U.S. Speaker of the House will be serving time in Minnesota for covering up sex crimes.

News sources in Chicago are reporting the 74-year-old Republican is in failing health. The federal facility in Rochester is the closest medical facility to Hastert's home state of Illinois.

A judge called Hastert a "serial child molester" at his trial and sentenced him to 15 months. Hastert is due to report to the prison on Wednesday.

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