{"id":224911,"date":"2024-04-22T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=224911"},"modified":"2024-04-22T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:19:14","slug":"flashback-judge-sentences-serial-child-molester-hastert-to-15-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=224911","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>FLASHBACK: Judge sentences &#8216;serial child molester&#8217; former Speaker Dennis Hastert to 15 months<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2016\/04\/27\/ex-speaker-dennis-hastert-faces-sentencing-chicago\/83584440\/\">READ HERE<\/a><\/strong>: CHICAGO \u2014 Former House speaker Dennis Hastert, who less than a decade ago stood second in line to the presidency, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison Wednesday for a bank fraud case linked to allegations he sexually abused teen boys more than 30 years ago.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Federal Judge Thomas Durkin called Hastert, 74, a &#8220;serial child molester&#8221; and rejected a prosecutor&#8217;s recommendation of six months in prison on a banking charge that carries a maximum five-year sentence. The court also fined Hastert\u00a0$250,000 and sentenced him to\u00a0two years of\u00a0supervised release after\u00a0leaving prison. Hastert\u00a0must register as a sex offender.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Nothing is more disturbing than having &#8216;serial child molester&#8217; and &#8216;Speaker of the House&#8217; in the same sentence,&#8221; Durkin said.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}