ago.
Mr. Hastert, 74, is not answerable with the incidents of corruption because of statutes of limitation, prosecutors said, but he was accused endure year of illegally alignment coffer withdrawals for money he was paying to one of his victims in an accomplishment to adumbrate the abuse. He pleaded accusable in October to the cyberbanking violation, and suffered a achievement in November while apprehension sentencing, now set for afterwards this month.
According to a cloister filing by prosecutors backward Friday laying out their sentencing considerations, Mr. Hastert, a accepted drillmaster in a baby Illinois boondocks in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, gave one boy a beating in the locker room, again performed an bearding sex act on him. Addition boy, Stephen Reinboldt, who died in 1995, was sexually abused by Mr. Hastert throughout top academy in the backward 1960s and aboriginal 1970s, his sister and others told the prosecutors. And prosecutors said Mr. Hastert had massaged addition boy’s beam breadth afterwards allurement the boy to break in his auberge allowance during a angry camp.
“Defendant acclimated his position of assurance as a abecedary and drillmaster to blow a child’s genitals and again denude and ask the adolescent for a aback beating in a cabin room,” the prosecutors wrote of that incident. “There is no ambiguity; actor sexually abused Alone A.”
Prosecutors said Mr. Hastert’s activity had been “marred by beauteous hypocrisy.”
“He fabricated them feel alone, ashamed, accusable and bare of dignity,” the cloister filing said. “While actor accomplished abundant success, accomplishment all the allowances that went with it, these boys struggled, and all are still disturbing now with what actor did to them.”
A advocate for Mr. Hastert did not anon acknowledgment to a appeal for animadversion on the prosecution’s claims.
In the cloister filing, prosecutors said they believed Mr. Hastert should face up to six months in prison, as appropriate beneath federal guidelines, if he is bedevilled on April 27.
Prosecutors Recommend Sentencing for Dennis Hastert
Illinois prosecutors said they believed the above apostle of the House should face up to six months in prison.
Sometime afterwards backward 2014, as law administration authorities were investigating almighty ample withdrawals of money from Mr. Hastert’s coffer account, Mr. Hastert told them that he had promised the ample sums — $3.5 actor — to the accepting who said he had been abused in the auberge room, accepted in cloister abstracts as Alone A. Mr. Hastert told the authorities that he was accepting extorted by Alone A.
But afterwards a alternation of recorded buzz calls, the board assured that no extortion was demography place, but that Mr. Hastert was accustomed out an agreed-to adjustment for abuse.
Prosecutors said “Individual A’s accent and demeanor” were “inconsistent with an alone acquisitive actor through threats to accomplish a apocryphal allegation accessible or even to accomplish a accurate allegation public.”
In a cloister filing beforehand this week, Mr. Hastert requested acquittal and said he was “profoundly sorry” for accomplished conduct, admitting he did not accommodate data about those actions.
On Friday, Mr. Hastert aswell filed beneath a allowance a acknowledgment to the government’s pre-sentence investigation. A audition is set for next anniversary on whether his filing charcoal beneath seal.
When Mr. Hastert was answerable endure year, the accusations ashamed the boondocks of Yorkville, Ill., about an hour west of here. Mr. Hastert, a Republican who served as House apostle from 1999 to 2007, was admired as a hero by abounding in Yorkville, area he had accomplished top school.
Prosecutors took agenda of Mr. Hastert’s poor health, but said that Mr. Hastert could abide accepting medical affliction in bastille if needed.
Steven A. Block, an abettor United States advocate for the Northern District of Illinois, said that Mr. Hastert’s sentencing adjudicator should “balance the absolute attributes of defendant’s accessible account with the charge to abstain a accessible acumen that the able are advised abnormally than accustomed citizens if adverse sentencing for a austere crime
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