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- Dennis Hastert, pictured in 2007
Writing about Dennis Hastert, the former Illinois congressman who’s been indicted for lying to the feds about withdrawing large sums of money, allegedly to pay off a man he sexually abused years ago while a Yorkville teacher and wrestling coach, the Sun-Times‘s Carol Marin passed along a question posed by a woman in Arizona to her brother in Chicago:
John Kass in the Tribune was more emphatic: “Dennis Hastert,” he declared, “is a Republican boss of the infamous Illinois Combine that has run this politically corrupt state.”
I think of Hastert as an old man haunted by a sin that cannot say its name. I feel sorry for him.
