CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, United States (Reuters) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced on Wednesday (April 27) to 15 months in federal prison, followed by two years of probation and sex-offender treatment for a financial crime related to his sexual abuse of high school wrestlers decades ago. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Durkin called Hastert a serial sex abuser in handing down the sentence, which was longer than the zero to six months recommended by […]





