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Boehner has broken but which they presume to still govern. nancy pelosi former speaker of the house, who came in after the hastert reign, to clean up and drain the swamp was on msnbc just a few hours ago and was asked about this. let us hear what she had to say. when mr. hastert was the speaker, our run for winning the house in 06 was to say that we were winning against a culture of cronyism and incompetence. at the time, many indictments but we had no idea that that would include the speaker of the house. i don t know janell. tim mckay s point. we tried. it goes on. are you asking me is this the nature of congress? i don t know, is this the nature of power? although this happened when he wasn t in congress. although the payoffs happened presumably after. i don t know. in fairness, his actual crime is not something that he appears to, as far as we know in terms of the details that have ....
Made to provide $3.5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against an unidentified person listed only as individual a. the indictment does not spell out the nature of said misconduct, but it does reference on page one hastert s time before he entered politics when he spent 16 years as a teacher and wrestling coach in yorkville, illinois. the indictment says individual a has been a yorkville resident and has known hastert most of his or her life. a federal law enforcement official tells nbc news this afternoon that hastert was making the payments to a man in order to conceal a sexual relationship they had while the man was a student at yorkville high school. the panel is back with me. revisiting hastert in the era of hastert brings to mind a myriad of scandals that plagued republican leadership. there was the foley scandal ....