Interesting things about Dennis Hastert
Hastert briefly attended North Central College, but later transferred to Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian liberal arts college. Jim Parnalee, Hastert's roommate at North Central who transferred with him to Wheaton, was the school's first student to be killed in Vietnam; it was reported that in 1999 that Hastert continues to visit Parnalee's family each year in Michigan.
Hastert suffers from diabetes and requires daily insulin injections. Because of his condition, he sometimes walked with protective coverings on his feet to avoid foot problems.
Throughout his term as Speaker of the House, Hastert was described as a Bush loyalist.] The two frequently praised each other, expressed mutual respect, and had a close working relationship, Hastert and Bush met privately at the White House about twice a month to discuss congressional "developments." hmmmmmm
Hastert has been married to Jean Hastert (née Kahl) from 1973 to the present. They have two children, Ethan and Joshua. Hastert's older son, Joshua, was a lobbyist for the firm PodestaMattoon, representing clients ranging from Amgen, a biotech company, to Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor.
Hastert's son Ethan s a partner at the Chicago office of the law firm Mayer Brown.
On May 28, 2015, an indictment of Hastert by a federal grand jury was unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago.The indictment alleges that Hastert agreed to make payments of $3.5 million to an unnamed subject (identified in the indictment only as an "Individual A" from Yorkville, Illinois, who was known to Hastert for "most of Individual A's life"). The indictment states that the payments were to "compensate for and conceal [Hastert's] prior misconduct." Yorkville is the town where Hastert had been a high school teacher for years.
Hastert briefly attended North Central College, but later transferred to Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian liberal arts college. Jim Parnalee, Hastert's roommate at North Central who transferred with him to Wheaton, was the school's first student to be killed in Vietnam; it was reported that in 1999 that Hastert continues to visit Parnalee's family each year in Michigan.
Hastert suffers from diabetes and requires daily insulin injections. Because of his condition, he sometimes walked with protective coverings on his feet to avoid foot problems.
Throughout his term as Speaker of the House, Hastert was described as a Bush loyalist.] The two frequently praised each other, expressed mutual respect, and had a close working relationship, Hastert and Bush met privately at the White House about twice a month to discuss congressional "developments." hmmmmmm
Hastert has been married to Jean Hastert (née Kahl) from 1973 to the present. They have two children, Ethan and Joshua. Hastert's older son, Joshua, was a lobbyist for the firm PodestaMattoon, representing clients ranging from Amgen, a biotech company, to Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor.
Hastert's son Ethan s a partner at the Chicago office of the law firm Mayer Brown.
On May 28, 2015, an indictment of Hastert by a federal grand jury was unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago.The indictment alleges that Hastert agreed to make payments of $3.5 million to an unnamed subject (identified in the indictment only as an "Individual A" from Yorkville, Illinois, who was known to Hastert for "most of Individual A's life"). The indictment states that the payments were to "compensate for and conceal [Hastert's] prior misconduct." Yorkville is the town where Hastert had been a high school teacher for years.