Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. What a mighty and humiliating fall. Dennis hastert once one of the most powerful men in the country and second in line for the presidency faced a blistering dressing down from an angry federal judge in chicago today as he publicly confronted a shameful past and was sentenced to prison. Hastert was convicted of a financial crime, but it was part of a scheme masked to cover something more egregious, his molestation of children. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk was there. Reporter former speaker of the house Dennis Hastert arrived at chicagos federal courthouse today in a wheelchair. His lawyers argued his poor health should keep him out of prison. But the judge was unsparing. Saying of hastert, nothing is more stunning than having serial child molester and speaker of the house in the same sentence. Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for
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