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VieBleu ago

Lest we forget what Hastert's very real crimes that they could actually nail him on -

Prosecutors for the first time this month provided details of the abuse of at least four wrestling team members, one as young as 14, that they said occurred on training tables, in a locker room and in a hotel room. One of the wrestlers recalled how Mr. Hastert put a reclining chair in view of the showers in the locker room, where Mr. Hastert sat “while the boys showered.” The “known acts,” the prosecutors said, consisted of “intentional touching of minors’ groin area and genitals or oral sex with a minor.”

I also read of 1 young man that died but told of Hastert's abuse to his sister beforehand.

Back to the DCRing -

Sometime after his arrival in Washington, Mr. Hastert named Bryan L. Harbin, one of his former wrestlers, to his staff. Mr. Harbin, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment, continued to serve as an aide to Hastert for most of his congressional tenure.

More on Thomas Jarman, who defnitely needs to be looked at further

he also amassed substantial campaign funds, and he used some of that money to support the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and the wrestling program at Manchester College in Indiana, run by a longtime friend and fellow wrestler, Thomas S. Jarman, whom Mr. Hastert also later hired onto his congressional staff.

How about this guy in the University arena, PhD Seth Norton -

Wheaton College opened the J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government, and Public Policy. Its director, starting in 2010, was Seth Norton, the former head wrestling coach at Wheaton College. http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Faculty/N/Seth-Norton

And this one - (this reporter is giving a who's who it seems of persons surrounding Hastert)

Mr. Hastert also set up a consulting firm working with an Illinois businessman, David John, a former Wheaton College wrestler who had worked with Mr. Hastert to pressure the college president to reverse a plan to eliminate funding for the school’s wrestling program.

The former speaker frequently attended a wrestling tournament that Mr. John ran at Wheaton College, and Mr. John also saw him at the national collegiate wrestling championship every March. “He absolutely loved being in that environment,” Mr. John said.

Yeah, Mr. John, we know he loved it.

Wheaton College in Illinois seems to be a node in the pedo ring. And is an evangelical college wouldn't you know. "The college did not say anything when three board members of the Wheaton center testified on Hastert’s behalf at his sentencing hearing..." http://religionnews.com/2016/04/30/wheaton-students-blast-christian-colleges-silence-over-hastert-abuse-confession/

Finally another letter writer hits the spotlight -

Mr. Kocher, the University of Chicago (wrestling) coach, declined to comment when asked about his letter defending Mr. Hastert from a decade ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/us/dennis-hastert-wrestling.html?_r=0