Indicted on federal criminal charges according to court documents. Hastert is accused of covering up big cash withdrawals he was making allegedly to be used as hush money the pay off someone he had wronged. Congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the latest. Reporter hastert served as speaker for eight years from 1999 to 2007, but its what hes done since that caught the attention of the f. B. I. According to the federal indictment, back in 2010, John Dennis Hastert agreed to provide someone referred to only as individual a, 3. 5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a. The indictment doesnt say what that misconduct was but it notes that the two have known each other for most of individual as life and that the individual is from the same illinois town where hastert was a High School Teacher and wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981. From 2010 to 2012, hastert made 15 50,000 withdrawals of cash from his local bank in illinois and gave the
Representatives, has been indicted on federal criminal charges according to court documents. Hastert is accused of covering up big cash withdrawals he was making allegedly to be used as hush money the pay off someone he had wronged. Congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the latest. Reporter hastert served as speaker for eight years from 1999 to 2007, but its what hes done since that caught the attention of the f. B. I. According to the federal indictment, back in 2010, John Dennis Hastert agreed to provide someone referred to only as individual a, 3. 5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a. The indictment doesnt say what that misconduct was but it notes that the two have known each other for most of individual as life and that the individual is from the same illinois town where hastert was a High School Teacher and wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981. From 2010 to 2012, hastert made 15 50,000 withdrawals of cash from his local ban
Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Christine romans is off today. And happening now, the Obama Administration is fine tuning its isis strategy in iraq. Pent goneagon officials are looking to bring sunni tribes into the fight. One possibly under consideration, the u. S. Could arm sunni fighters directly. That would supplement the Current System going through the shiite government in baghdad. This is happening as they are trying to exhume 499 bodies in tikrit which isis claim it is killed last year at a military base. Iraqi officials and foreigners stayed in a hotel where bombs hit. We have our correspondent arwa damon with us. The idea of arming the sunnis directly is not without controversy. Reporter it is not. Thats because of the ongoing secretarytarian issues here. They have yet to do that. Then of course you have the various different dynamics of the battle field where you end up with more unconventional forces armed fighting alongside each other in the battle against isis. At
Also today he hopped into the cockpit of a private plane with his young son ignoring air Traffic Control and crashing the plane. Want until you hear what police say he was doing before he got behind the controls. Good afternoon afternoon. Welcome to the lead everyone. Im jake tapper. A disturbing and unprecedented admission upon the people we count to protect us from tear rage. Tear original. The fbi asking for help dealing with the huge surge of isis sympathizers here in the u. S. Some perhaps online loners others could be quite dangerous and hellbent on carrying out an attack in the homeland. We have evidence this is a real problem. Evan perez joins me now. Part of this plea for help is an admission they did not have the man power to stop the shooting outside that cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad contest in garland, texas. Jake theyre facing two problems really. They cant stop what they cant see, and secondly they dont have enough people to keep an eye on what they say are hundreds of
Denis has tert the was indicted today on federal criminal charges. According to Court Documents republican from illinois is accused of covering up big cash withdrawals he was making allegedly to be used as hush money to pay off someone he had wronged. Congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the latest. Dennis hastert served as speaker for eight years from 1999 to 2007 but its what he has done since that caught the attention of the fb,. Arding to the federal indictment, back in 2010 John Dennis Hastert agreed to provide someone referred to only as individual a 3. 5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a. The indictment the indictment doesnt say what that misconduct was, but it notes that the two have known each other for most of individual as life and that the individual is from the same illinois town where hastert was a High School Teacher and wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981. From 2010 to 2012, hastert made 15 50,000 withdrawals