Charges. Accused of making false statements to the fbi and trying to hide large Financial Transactions that the government alleged was hush money. According to the indictment hastert agreed to pay 3. 5 million identified only as individual a. After meetings between the two five years ago. Payments meant to compensate for his prior misconduct. It doesnt describe what the misconduct was but it said he did know him most of his life and he was a High School Teacher and coach for years. Last year the fbi launched an investigation on the payment and whether he was vying to avoid occurrence transaction payment and using the cash to cover up past misconduct. That is why they are looking into this. A pattern of withdrawing around 10,000 from the bank without an explanation, hastert told fbi agents that the withdrawals were because he did not trust the bank system. The government alleges that was a false statement. It is a stunning turn for the former republican leader who was spouse speaker fro
Does say individual a knew hastert most of individual as life and was a resident of the illinois town where the former speaker of the house was High School Teacher and coach for years. In consultation with the White House Reporter in december of last year the fbi launched an investigation on the payments and whether hastert was trying to avoid currency transaction reporting requirements as well as using the cash to cover up past misconduct. Thats why they would be looking into this. If there was a pattern of withdrawing around 10,000 from the bank without another explanation. Reporter hastert told fbi agents that the withdrawals were because he did not trust the bank system. The government alleges that was a false statement. Its a stunning turn for the former republican leader who was House Speaker from 1999 until he stepped down in 2007. Since then hes been a lobbyist at this Washington Firm which quickly removed hasterts biography from its website after the indictment was announced.
At a u. S. Base in south korea, four more in the United States undergoing treatment for exposure to lethal anthrax spores. 22 air force personnel are undergoing treatment about an hour south of seoul going through post exposure treatments. But these air force personnel received a shipment that contained live specimens of anthrax. Its a potent biological weapon. This shipment though, came from the United States military itself. The anthrax was shipped according to one defense official via fedex from an army lab in utah to the base. And commercial laboratories in nine other american states also received the deadly bioagent. They were supposed to contain whats called a dead agent of anthrax. It was a lab in maryland that was the first to report that this anthrax was not dead. It was alive and deadly. We begin the coverage on this breaking story in seoul, south korea. 22 people exposed where you are. What treatment are they getting tonight . Theyre on antibiotics. Some of them have been gi
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