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VieBleu ago

Excellent idea OP -

What I found randomly picking the name of letter writer Tom Jarman, this article - https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/former-us-speaker-of-the-house-dennis-hastert-indicted?utm_term=.vjq6Qeb3Y#.ibplXgDAn

Items of interest - US District Judge and later Obama appointee Thomas M. Durkin needs to be looked into.

The federal judge tasked with presiding over Dennis Hastert’s case twice donated money to the former House speaker’s election campaigns, Federal Election Commission records show.
"As first reported by the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin donated $500 to Hastert’s congressional campaign in 2002 and $1,000 to his campaign in 2004 when the judge was in private practice as an attorney. Durkin, who was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by President Obama in May 2012, told the AP he was unable to provide comment on the Hastert case, including on whether he may recuse himself from the proceedings due to a conflict of interest.

Tom Jarman worked directly for Hastert after he was Speaker, paid with misused taxpayer funds and was close to him -

"The third employee, Tom Jarman, accompanied Hastert and John on a 2008 trip to California — a trip referenced in a 2012 Chicago Tribune investigation into Hastert’s funds — that was also raised in the lawsuit.

Finally the law firm Dickstein Shapiro (Dickstein, really?) is Hastert's pedo protecting safe space.

"Hastert’s lawyers include his son, **Ethan Hastert, **a partner at Mayer Brown, and Justin Chiarodo, a partner at Dickstein Shapiro — the firm where Hastert worked prior to Thursday’s indictment..

"Although a Dickstein Shapiro spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News that Hastert had resigned from the firm, a partner at the firm — along with Hastert’s son — was still serving as Hastert’s lawyer"