Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from prison in Minnesota. Right now he’s at a Chicago re-entry facility. Hastert is nearing the end of a 15-month sentence that a federal judge gave him in April 2016 in a case that revealed accusations he had sexually abused teenagers while coaching wrestling at a suburban Chicago high school.
Hastert pleaded guilty to violating federal banking law in seeking to pay three and a half million dollars in hush money to keep the sex abuse secret. (AP)
