Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) is scheduled to show up to serve his 15-month federal prison sentence today for a hush money case related to decades-old allegations of sexual abuse.
According to a report from ABC News, Hastert will serve out his term at a Minnesota medical prison.
Hastert was sentenced in May for illegally structuring $1.7 million in bank withdrawals as he paid an alleged victim of abuse committed when Hastert was a high school wrestling coach decades ago. While the statute of limitations had expired on the allegations of abuse, the stories of several victims were revealed as the case unfolded. They weighed heavily over Hastert’s May sentencing.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin said at the time according to a report from the Chicago Tribune, that “nothing is more stunning than having ‘serial child molester’ and ‘speaker of the House’ in the same sentence.”
When Hastert is released from prison, he will have to serve 2 years of supervised release.
