Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) resigned his positions with a national lobbying firm and a corporate board after he was indicted Thursday for allegedly agreeing to pay $3.5 million to compensate for “prior misconduct” against an unidentified individual.
A spokesperson for the Washington, D.C.-based law and lobbying firm Dickstein Shapiro on Thursday told the Associated Press that Hastert had resigned. Hastert had joined the firm shortly after leaving Congress in 2007.
CME Group, a futures exchange company, also said Thursday that Hastert had resigned from its board of directors, according to Reuters.
“CME Group, a futures exchange company”
Well, almost “The Futures Exchange Company”, they practically invented the stuff (and a lot of it is actually adding value to the economy). Today they have competitors, but at one time they were the only game in town.