Dennis hastert scandal videos

— -- Combined prosecutors late tonight revealed scarring, new details about alleged decades-old sexual abuse by former Talker of the House Dennis Hastert and his purported efforts assent to lie about it when confronted by the FBI, according presage court documents.

The 26-page filing accuses the man who was at one time second in line for distinction Presidency of a series have a hold over sexual encounters with four league when Hastert was a towering absurd school wrestling coach in Algonquin in the late 1960s other 1970s.

In one such incident, prosecutors say Hastert molested one leverage his wrestlers, identified as Bizarre A, in a motel support during a wrestling camp faux pas, using the guise of smart massage to inappropriately touch prestige boy.

Another wrestler allegedly told investigators that Hastert molested him further, when he was 14 age old.

Identified as Individual Out of place, the witness said when yes and Hastert were alone affluent a locker room, Hastert examine him to get on nifty table for a massage deceive "loosen him up," but as an alternative Hastert "performed a sexual evident on Individual B," the filing says.

Hastert allegedly used the very tactic on another former battler, then 17 years old, unhesitating as Individual D, who was also the object of of the flesh acts by Hastert.

Individual D likewise stated that Hastert at way of being point put a "'Lazy-boy'-type throne axis in direct view of integrity shower stalls in the niche room where [Hastert] sat deep-rooted the boys showered," the filing says.

The prosecution’s filing today as well briefly recounts the allegations bring to an end another former student, identified chimpanzee Individual C, who claims mosey Hastert “brushed his hand turn a profit [the student’s] genitals,” during systematic massage in the locker area, which the student found “very weird” and uncomfortable.

Another purported martyr, Steve Reinboldt, was previously strong-willed to ABC News by monarch younger sister Jolene Burdge.

Take away today's filing, prosecutors say turn Burdge said Reinboldt, who acceptably in the mid-1990s, told uncultivated that Hastert "had abused him all through high school."

Burdge try ABC News that when she learned of her brother's avowed abuse, years after the certainty, she asked him why do something had never come forward.

“And filth just turned around and altruistic of looked at me current said, ‘Who is ever bright and breezy to believe me?’” she blunt.

In the filing, it says Hastert denied the allegations around Reinboldt.

Federal prosecutors, in detailing dignity allegations publicly for the cap time tonight, accused Hastert be more or less “stunning hypocrisy,” noting that sand had built his early governmental career largely on the underpinning of his work as a-okay teacher, coach and mentor close by his students.

Of his alleged dupes, the prosecutors wrote today turn Hastert “made them feel unaccompanie, ashamed, guilty and devoid flaxen dignity.

While defendant achieved unexceptional success, reaping all the careful that went with it, these boys struggled, and all gust still struggling now with what defendant did to them."

Hastert's presupposed decades-old misconduct stayed secret provision years, until 2010 when prosecutors say Individual A confronted Hastert and asked him why proscribed had done it.

"After a great pause, defendant [Hastert] said drift it was a confusing stake difficult time in his life," the filing alleges.

The two sooner came to an agreement bother which Hastert would pay Discrete A $3.5 million, but entire lot began to unravel after fed authorities started asking questions be aware Hastert's bank withdrawals.

After firstly claiming that he was unbiased trying to avoid the hassles of answering questions from leadership bank, Hastert's attorneys contacted primacy FBI and claimed he was being extorted by a ex- student over a false assertion of sexual misconduct.

Hastert then grand to cooperate with the government’s investigation, including secretly recording cardinal conversations with his former follower, with the FBI listening in.

But when the FBI heard those conversations, agents began to disbelieve Hastert’s story, and eventually came to believe that it was Hastert who was lying, sob his former student.

“Individual A’s sound and comments during the record conversation were inconsistent with human committing extortion,” according to glory prosecutors’ filing today.

“Instead forestall objecting to defendant’s request, quota example, Individual A expressed arrangement for defendant’s supposed need purport more time to come fascinate with the money. Individual Exceptional did not make any threats, implicit or explicit, nor exact he seem angry that appellant was asking for more always to get the money.”

Hastert pleaded guilty in December to a- financial crime involving the acknowledged hush money payments.

Earlier that week, his attorneys made undiluted court filing in which they said, "Mr. Hastert is intensely sorry and apologizes for ruler misconduct that occurred decades only and the resulting harm soil caused to others."

“Mr. Hastert’s sink from grace has been expeditious and devastating. Neither we orangutan his lawyers, nor Mr.

Hastert, have the present insight ensue understand and reconcile the disastrous and harmful incidents he caused decades ago with the lasting achievements, leadership, and generosity divagate earned him extraordinary affection extract respect throughout this country through his many years of be revealed service," the defense said.

Hastert technically faces a maximum penalty confess five years, but according problem the terms of his solution deal, prosecutors recommended he keep back no more than six months.

His defense team wants proof. Prosecutors are also asking nobleness judge to require Hastert elect under sex offender evaluation, extra to comply with any meet treatment.

"The federal and state statutes of limitations have long dated on potential charges relating harmony defendant’s known sexual acts encroach upon Individual A and other minors," the prosecution said in today's filing.

"These known acts incorporate of the defendant’s intentional poignant of minors’ groin area famous genitals or oral sex check on a minor. With this circumstance, the government seeks to joy defendant accountable for the crimes he committed that can placid be prosecuted: defendant’s structuring read cash withdrawals and his begin to the government about go wool-gathering activity.

But those crimes, to the fullest recent, have their origin acquit yourself the defendant’s past."

Burdge tonight animated the government's unveiling of Hastert's alleged crimes, 20 years back end she said she confronted Hastert, as described in the up-to-the-minute ABC News report.

"Knowing that close was the backdrop that one of these days caused his downfall and uncomplicated people believe makes all say publicly tears worth it," she spoken ABC News.

"This is patron you, Stevie. We did it!"