Here's something you don't see every day: one of the most powerful men in the country being extorted on live television. Well, maybe. Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who is currently on the business end of an FBI probe into $3.5 million in alleged hush ...read more

For the past 24 hours some strange things have been happening with Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker of the House during almost all of the Bush administration. On Thursday Hastert was indicted on federal charges he tried to arrange a series of bank withdrawals in a way that ...read more