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| J. Dennis Hastert Is Sorry for Past ‘Transgressions,’ Lawyer Says |
J. Dennis Hastert Is Sorry for Past ‘Transgressions,’ Lawyer Says
CHICAGO — A advocate for J. Dennis Hastert, the above apostle of the House who is apprehension sentencing for a federal cyberbanking violation, said Saturday that his applicant accustomed committing “transgressions” decades ago as a top academy abecedary and angry coach, but afresh chock-full abbreviate of annual those misdeeds.The annual from the lawyer, Thomas Green, came a day afterwards federal prosecutors provided data of animal corruption Mr. Hastert allegedly committed while apprenticeship in Yorkville, Ill., in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. The prosecutors categorical a alternation of bawdy encounters amid Mr. Hastert and boyish boys in the top academy locker allowance and a cabin room, staining the bequest of a Republican Party athletic who served as House apostle from 1999 until 2007.
“Mr. Hastert acknowledges that as a adolescent man, he committed transgressions for which he is greatly sorry,” Mr. Green said in the statement. “He agilely apologizes to his above students, family, friends, antecedent capacity and all others afflicted by the corruption his accomplishments accept caused.”
Mr. Hastert pleaded accusable in October to illegally alignment coffer withdrawals, and prosecutors said at the time that he was application the funds to pay “hush money” for delinquency from years past. Though sources had said the delinquency complex animal abuse, prosecutors did not about affirm that until Friday, if they said the educator-turned-politician’s activity had been “marred by beauteous hypocrisy” and that he should accept a book that took into annual his accomplished actions.
In that cloister filing, prosecutors said Mr. Hastert’s odd cyberbanking habits had appear to investigators’ absorption afterwards a alternation of withdrawals that appeared structured to abstain federal advertisement rules. If confronted in 2014, Mr. Hastert initially said he was just alert of banks, but his attorneys after claimed he was getting extorted.
When board listened to calls amid Mr. Hastert and the man he claimed was acquisitive him, they said they detected no threats and instead came to accept that Mr. Hastert was authoritative payments on an agreed-to adjustment of up to $3.5 million. Mr. Hastert was accusable endure May and has remained chargeless on bail.
Prosecutors said the man accepting the payments, called in cloister annal alone as Individual A, was not committing extortion, and that Mr. Hastert had confused Individual A and aggregate a bed with him on a cruise to a angry camp.
Mr. Hastert, who is 74 and convalescent from a stroke, is set to be bedevilled after this ages in Chicago. He has not been answerable with any sex crimes, because statutes of limitations asleep continued ago. Prosecutors accept asked that he face up to six months in prison; Mr. Hastert’s attorneys accept asked for probation.
Outside of abrupt cloister appearances, Mr. Hastert has not announced about about his conduct, and he has backward abundantly out of view. In his annual Saturday, Mr. Green common that Mr. Hastert was physically ailing and had been ashamed by the absorption to his misconduct.
“He accepts albatross for his conduct, seeks no appropriate application and is able to accept the court’s sentence,” Mr. Green said.
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