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Former high school wrestling coach indicted in Illinois

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by cranberry, May 29, 2015.

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  1. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    The feds are only notified if the transactions involve cash and exceed $10,000 per day. I guess someone somewhere decided that alone is probable cause for money laundering or some other crime.
     
    MisterCreosote, May 29, 2015
    #25
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Yeah. It is a bank secrecy act that they passed in the early 70s. They then tied it to the Patriot Act.

    It's one of those things that people now accept without a thought that would have caused most Americans to have a stroke throughout our history.

    It's an anti-money laundering law. The thing is, it puts the government in charge of monitoring all of us in a Big Brotherish way, and it has them intruding on the lives of people who have done nothing wrong -- under the rationale that they MIGHT be doing something wrong. To me, it's one of those things that is as odious as cops stopping and frisking people because of the way they look or the neighborhood they are in.
     
    The Big Ragu, May 29, 2015
    #26
  3. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    Let's go ahead and throw out the possibilities here:

    1. Involved with a student he impregnated. Would explain why he had to keep paying. And paying. ($3.5 million is a lot of money.)
    2. Involved with a male student who extorted him to keep his big gay lust secret.
    3. Other?

    What kind of other power would someone have over Hastert? Family secret? Illegal business? Drug addiction?
     
    Double Down, May 29, 2015
    #27
  4. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    It's hard to believe this, whatever it is, is anything less than dead girl/live boy territory.
     
    MisterCreosote, May 29, 2015
    #28
  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    It's someone in that little town who has known him their whole life. So you probably got it with 1 or 2. The only other thing I can think of is someone shaking him down for money with regard to something related to his time as a Congressman. There was so much sleaze there that it can be anything. I know there was a lot of smoke around this guy. The one thing I remembered was that former FBI agent turned whistleblower who said the FBI had wiretaps of Hastert accepting bribes from Turks to approve weapons payemnts and deny Armenian genocide, and she was accusing them of burying it. Who knows what this guy has his hands in?
     
    The Big Ragu, May 29, 2015
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  6. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Yankeefan in the sin bin again?

    He should be all over this one.
     
    JC, May 29, 2015
    #30
  7. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    LongTimeListener, May 29, 2015
    #31
  8. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Imagine that.
     
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    cranberry, May 29, 2015
    #32
  9. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    I hate being right. What a scumbag.
     
    MisterCreosote, May 29, 2015
    #33
  10. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    So he was Poin Files - Grindr Edition.
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, May 29, 2015
    #34
  11. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    If gay marriage were legal, Hastert and his extorter could have married and he could have legally given the guy half of everything he owned. No muss. No fuss. No trouble with the feds.
     
    Ace, May 29, 2015
    #35
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  12. king cranium maximus IV

    king cranium maximus IV Active Member

    Way way way back in 2006, during the Mark Foley scandal, the conservative newspaper I was working at would publish daily these sycophantic op/ed pieces extolling the virtues of Dennis Hastert, the kind, gentle, godly leader who showed leading leadership by lubing up and putting on the tights and wrestling with young boys. Then and there my internal ***CREEPER*** alert was on full blast.

    You can smell these types from a mile away.
     
    king cranium maximus IV, May 29, 2015
    #36
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