DENNIS HASTERT, FORMER US HOUSE SPEAKER AND ADMITTED CHILD MOLESTER, DIES AT 84

Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican US House of Representatives speaker who later admitted to sexually abusing boys as a high school wrestling coach and pleaded guilty to charges arising from the scandal, has died, CBS News reported on Monday, citing a coroner in Illinois. He was 84.

Hastert, sentenced in April 2016 to 15 months in prison for bank fraud for trying to cover ​up payments to keep his molestation secret, died at his home over the weekend due to natural causes, Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell told CBS News.

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