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Hastert: It’s not the crime… — 6 Comments

  1. My guess is that he had a love child with Janet Reno. Who wouldn’t pay $3.5 million to cover that up?

  2. Oh thanks for that image…. he said while reaching for the inner eye-bleach.

  3. AMartel:

    We still don’t know the crime.

    If it’s child sexual abuse, the statute of limitations for civil suit in Illinois has probably run out (see this). He stopped being a teacher/coach in 1981, according to Wiki. Whether criminal statute of limitations laws for child sexual abuse in Illinois would allow prosecution is an area of law so complex I don’t have the time or inclination to wade through it. Let’s just say it’s uncertain.

    Of course, that’s a technicality in a way. Even if the alleged crime can’t be prosecuted in a court of law, it will be prosecuted in the press and social media—probably exactly what Hastert feared. And my guess is that the prosecution in the social media and press will be a lot harsher than what would have happened in a courtroom.

  4. True point that we don’t know the crime. I don’t know and am just saying it smells like alleged child sex abuse. True point also about the SOL. We have a similarly byzantine statute of limitations for child sex abuse here in California. And it has been extended by the legislature multiple times. I’ve seen 50-60 year old alleged victims. Where there’s a will ….

    I think it’s possible they’re bootstrapping by bringing this (ridiculous) charge. It will allow the prosecution to argue that the payments he has already made are evidence (ostensibly, for the crime charged, but really for the underlying crime). They’re trying to do the same thing with Cosby and those very ripe rape claims against him.

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