{"id":9544,"date":"2015-05-30T22:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T22:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2015-05-30T22:36:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T22:36:19","slug":"hastert-indictment-turns-stunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9544","title":{"rendered":"Hastert indictment turns stunning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Did the planet just reverse its rotation, causing the sun to rise in the west?<\/p>\n<p>Has the world spun off its axis?<\/p>\n<p>Did the Easter Bunny really just appear?<\/p>\n<p>I am still trying to get a grip on an indictment that alleges that former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert &#8212; a Boy Scout, or so I thought &#8212; paid a student back in Yorkville, Ill., to be quiet about a sexual episode involving the then-wrestling coach who went on to become second in succession to the presidency of the United State of America.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/243461-hastert-paid-to-hide-sexual-misconduct-report<\/p>\n<p>Hastert became speaker after Newt Gingrich resigned and after Bob Livingston, who was next in line to become the Man of the House, admitted to an extramarital affair, forcing <em>him<\/em> to drop out of contention.<\/p>\n<p>So the House picked Hastert, a virtual unknown outside of Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a lot more well known now.<\/p>\n<p>The federal indictment alleges hush money and tax fraud involving the former speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief in heaven, this is going to get weird.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt goes back a long way, back to then,\u201d a source told the New York Times. \u201cIt has nothing to do with public corruption or a corruption scandal. Or to his time in office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, these things have ways of developing lives of their own.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet real American money this one will linger for a long while.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the planet just reverse its rotation, causing the sun to rise in the west? Has the world spun off its axis? Did the Easter Bunny really just appear? I am still trying to get a grip on an indictment that alleges that former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert &#8212; a Boy Scout, or so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hastert indictment turns stunning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[689,1345,2183,3287,3299,3700,3726],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-bob-livingston","tag-dennis-hastert","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-new-york-times","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-presidency","tag-presidential-succession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}