Dennis Hastert was an Illinois Republican politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007. He was the speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007. Before his career in Congress, Hastert taught and coached wrestling and football at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Illinois. In 2015, Hastert was indicted for violating banking laws and lying to the FBI, and he publicly admitted to having sexually abused teenaged boys several decades earlier. In 2016, he pled guilty to the banking violations and was sentenced to 15 months in prison.
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