Dennis Hastert, former House speaker disgraced by molestation allegations, dies aged 84

Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican US House speaker, died over the weekend, a coroner said on Monday. He was 84.

Hastert, who was speaker from 1999 until 2007, died of natural causes at his home, according to Jacquie Purcell, the Kendall county coroner. When he was sentenced in 2016 to more than a year behind bars, the former history teacher became one of the highest-ranking US politicians ever ordered to prison. He had also helped turn much of George W Bush’s presidential agenda into law before his own political legacy was forever fouled by allegations that he molested high school athletes when he was a wrestling coach, Read More.....