Mother Jones: Dennis Hastert May Have Chosen the Absolute Worst Way to Buy Someone's Silence

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/dennis-hastert-indictment-payoffs?google_editors_picks=true

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Former House speaker Dennis Hastert is now under indictment for lying to the FBI and embroiled in a major sex abuse scandal. The allegations of Hastert's sexual misconduct—and his alleged efforts to cover up his misdeeds by paying off the victim—are shocking on their own. But what's also so remarkable about the case is that Hastert, who spent 20 years in Congress, got caught in the first place, given how many easy, creative, and legal methods exist for buying someone's silence without leaving a paper trail.
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