Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert released from prison to halfway house
By Josh Gerstein
07/18/2017 08:54 AM EDT
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, 75, has been released from a federal prison hospital in Minnesota and transferred to a halfway house in Chicago, federal records show.
Hastert pleaded guilty last year to violating anti-money laundering laws in a case stemming from hush money he paid to conceal sexual abuse he committed of students while he was a high school teacher and coach several decades ago.
Prosecutors sought a sentence of up to six months for the ailing ex-speaker, but a federal judge in Chicago more than doubled that, giving him a 15-month term and condemning as "unforgivable" his sexual liaisons with boys in rural Yorkville, Ill.
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