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Former House Speaker Hastert gets 15 months in prison
CHICAGO - Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 months in federal prison, followed by 2 years of probation and sex-offender treatment for a financial crime related to his sexual abuse of high school wrestlers decades ago.
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Durkin called Hastert a serial sex abuser in handing down the sentence, which was longer than the zero to six months that federal prosecutors had recommended. Hastert had pleaded guilty to structuring, which is withdrawing a large sum of money in small increments to avoid detection. He was paying the money to a sex abuse victim.
(Reporting by Fiona Ortiz and Justin Madden; Editing by James Dalgleish)
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrives at the Dirksen Federal courthouse for his scheduled sentencing hearing in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. April 27, 2016. REUTERS/Frank Polich
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