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.
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Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is due to report by Wednesday afternoon to a federal prison in southeastern Minnesota.
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.
Dennis Hastert does not plan to appeal the 15-month prison sentence handed down in a dramatic court hearing late last month, his lead attorney told the Chicago Sun-Times.
The National Wrestling Hall of Fame said Monday that it has revoked all honors for Dennis Hastert after the former House speaker was accused of sexually abusing teenagers decades ago.
In the wake of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's child sex abuse scandal, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has renewed her call to eliminate the statute of limitations on sex crimes against children.
A day after former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison for trying to cover up allegations of sex abuse, a Kendall County judge allowed an individual at the center of the case to proceed with a lawsuit seeking the rest of the hush money Hastert had promised him.
Here is a transcript of statements made at the hearing.
CBS 2's Sandra Torres reports on how Scott Cross' words in court made an impact.
CBS 2's Mike Parker reports Plano's former favorite son is the talk of the town.
The brother of the former state GOP House leader emerged Wednesday as an abuse victim of Dennis Hastert.
Calling former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert a "serial child molester," a federal judge has sentenced him to 15 months in prison for trying to skirt banking regulations to conceal hush money payments intended to cover up sex abuse allegations from the time he was a high school wrestling coach and teacher in Yorkville decades ago.
The brother of former Illinois Republican House Leader Tom Cross testified Wednesday that he was sexually abused by former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who is facing sentencing for violating banking laws to conceal hush money payments to another victim.
CBS 2's Derrick Blakley spent the day in Plano, where the Hasterts lived for 20 years and where, for many, support has turned to scorn.
An individual at the center of the Dennis Hastert hush money case is suing the former U.S. House speaker for breach of contract.
The former U.S. House Majority Leader writes that the 74-year-old Hastert "is a good man that loves the lord."
The judge in Dennis Hastert's hush-money case says that if the former U.S. House speaker wants letters of support considered during his sentencing, they must be made public.
CBS 2's Brad Edwards reports on how the pain of sex abuse for some, never goes away.
The judge in Dennis Hastert's hush-money case signaled Wednesday that he will consider the former U.S. House speaker's lies to investigators that he was being extorted on a false claim of sexual abuse at his sentencing hearing, where prosecutors say one person who says he was abused is expected to speak.
Prosecutors recommend the former U.S. House speaker serve up to six months in prison.
At least four people have made "credible allegations of sexual abuse" against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday, citing unidentified law enforcement sources.
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has apologized for harmful misconduct "decades ago" and asked a judge to sentence him to probation on a bank fraud charge.
A filing in Dennis Hastert's hush-money case confirms prosecutors intend to call at least one witness at the former U.S. House speaker's sentencing, which has been delayed until April 27.
The federal judge in Dennis Hastert's hush-money case says he's appointing someone to review the former U.S. House speaker's medical records weeks after granting a request by defense attorneys to delay sentencing on grounds that the 74-year-old man nearly died and remained in poor health.
A federal judge has agreed to delay sentencing for former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert in his hush-money case, after the Illinois Republican's attorneys revealed he nearly died in November when he suffered a severe blood infection.
Dennis Hastert was accused in May of evading banking regulations as part of a plan to pay hush money to conceal "prior misconduct."
