Former US House Speaker Linked to Sexual Abuse

Prosecutors say former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Dennis Hastert molested at least five teenage boys when he was a high school wrestling coach and then agreed to pay one of them $3.5 million to keep quiet about the abuse. The accusations emerged late Friday in a court filing detailing the accusations of abuse by five of Hastert's former students. The filing recommends that a federal judge sentence the 74-year-old Hastert, once second in line to the U.S....

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