More details emerge in the Dennis Hastert indictment

More details emerge in the Dennis Hastert indictment

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Thursday afternoon we learned that former House speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, was indicted on charges that he lied to the FBI about alleged hush money he paid to someone the indictment refers to only as “Individual A.” Now, more details are starting to emerge. The New York Times is reporting that Hastert was paying someone to conceal decades-old sexual abuse that took place when he was a high school teacher and coach in suburban Chicago. Here to walk us through the legal language of the indictment is former federal prosecutor Jeff Cramer, who’s currently a senior managing director at Kroll Investigations, a risk and security consultancy.