Harut Sassounian
BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN
Federal Prosecutors indicted last week former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert for:
1) Lying to the FBI on why he had withdrawn nearly $1.7 million from various banks in the last four years,
2) Evading the reporting requirements of banks for large cash transactions.
Each count carries a maximum penalty of five-years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The indictment charges that in 2010 Hastert secretly met one of his former students and agreed to pay him $3.5 million to secure his silence for “past misconductâ€
