Former Speaker Dennis Hastert's Settlement In Hush Money Case To Be Finalized Monday
A man who accused Hastert of child sex abuse claims Hastert refused to pay nearly $2 million in agreed-upon hush money.
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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Payments To Man Who Accuses Him Of Abuse
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has reached a tentative settlement over payments to a man who accused him of child sexual abuse.
Judge: Hastert Victim Broke Terms Of $3.5M Hush-Money Deal
A former student who Dennis Hastert sexually abused decades ago breached an unwritten $3.5 million hush-money agreement with the former U.S. House Speaker by telling family members and a friend about it, an Illinois judge ruled this week.
Illinois Court Upholds Dismissal Of Suit Against Hastert
The unnamed accuser says Hastert abused him when he stopped to use a bathroom at a Yorkville building outside Chicago. He says Hastert warned him not to go to police.
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Kendall County Judge Dismisses Sex Abuse Suit Against Dennis Hastert
Judge Robert Pilmer said the statute of limitations had expired on the case.
'Serial Child Molester' Dennis Hastert Denies Bathroom Stall Attack
The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives now "adamantly denies" he sodomized a fourth-grader in a bathroom stall in the early 1970s.
Serial Child Abuser Dennis Hastert Set To Officially Leave Federal Custody
The former U.S. House speaker is set to officially leave the custody of the Bureau of Prisons and begin two years under court supervision.
Dennis Hastert Mugshot Released
A mugshot taken Monday of U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was released on Wednesday.
Hastert Leaves Federal Prison In Minnesota, Back In Chicago
Hastert, 75, was sentenced to 15 months in prison last year, and reported to Rochester Federal Medical Center in Minnesota last June.
New Abuse Allegations Detailed Against Hastert
A lawsuit claims a grade-schooler was sexually assaulted by Dennis Hastert in the 1970s in a public restroom. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports.
New Accuser Sues Former Speaker Dennis Hastert, Claims Child Sex Abuse
The lawsuit filed Friday claims Hastert forced himself on a 9- or 10-year-old boy in a Yorkville High School bathroom in the early 1970s.
Illinois Board Terminates Hastert's State Lawmaker Pension
An Illinois retirement board is terminating the pension that imprisoned former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert for his service in the Illinois General Assembly.
Illinois Board To Consider Hastert's State Lawmaker Pension
Illinois officials are poised to consider the status of the pension Dennis Hastert receives for the time the imprisoned former U.S. House speaker served in the state's General Assembly.
Judge Tosses Federal Lawsuit Alleging Hastert Misused Office
A judge has tossed a lawsuit alleging ex-Speaker Dennis Hastert used a taxpayer-funded office to do private business after leaving Congress.
Hastert Demands Hush Money Back, Through Attorneys
Attorneys for disgraced former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert want the $1.7 million back that Hastert paid to keep sexual abuse allegations quiet.
Imprisoned Hastert Fights For Tax-Covered Pension
The ex-U.S. House speaker is now pointing to a technicality to argue that a state body should restore his $17,000-a-year teacher's pension that it yanked after his April 27 sentencing.
Sex Abuse Survivor Urges Lawmakers To Change State Statues On Child Sex Abuse
Cross joined Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan in testifying before the Senate Criminal Law Committee's Subcommittee on Statutes of Limitation.
After Hastert, Illinois Pushes For Change To Child Abuse Law
The attorney general for Illinois is calling on state lawmakers to pass legislation removing statutes of limitations for child sex abuse crimes in response to the case against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
Hastert's Prison Release Date Pushed Back
After initially predicting the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives would go free on July 23, 2017, the Federal Bureau of Prisons now apparently expects Hastert to spend a little more time behind bars.
Hastert Lawyer Says Victim's Lawsuit Should Be Thrown Out
The sordid secrets in Dennis Hastert's past began to fully unravel in March 2015, when federal agents approached one of his alleged victims to find out why Hastert was paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars, documents show.
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert Reports To Federal Prison
Inmate No. 47991-424 – as Hastert will be known – begins serving a 15-month sentence at the federal prison.
Hastert's Fall From Power: He Reports To Prison Wednesday
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is due to report by Wednesday afternoon to a federal prison in southeastern Minnesota.
Judge Orders Dennis Hastert To Report To Prison By June 22
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been ordered to report to prison by June 22 to begin serving a 15-month sentence in his hush-money case.
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