Dennis Hastert, who has pleaded guilty in a “hush money” case. Prosecutors say Mr. Hastert, awaiting sentencing for violating federal banking laws, sexually abused teenage boys as a teacher ...

is that he ran afoul of the so-called “Hastert rule,” named for former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert. The “rule” is actually an informal policy that has been used for decades to ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert will resign his congressional seat rather than serve out the rest of his term, two GOP congressional sources told CNN. The Illinois ...

Out of 164 CPC designations, there has only been one “binding agreement” entered to address a religious freedom violation and ...

Does anybody really think that Newt Gingrich, who left his first wife when she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery, let alone people such as Dennis Hastert, who later elocuted in ...

Another prominent Illinois politician — the nation’s longest-serving Republican U.S. House speaker, Dennis Hastert of Plano — went to prison in a hush-money case that revealed allegations ...

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Corporations themselves cannot donate to candidates at the federal level but federal candidates can get contributions from corporate PACs, employees and owners as well as their immediate families. At ...

Zachary Fardon, who assumed Chicago's No. 1 federal law enforcement job in 2013, oversaw the prosecution of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. In the year of weird presidential races ...

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