Hastert pleads "not guilty" in federal court

Mary Bruno • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>Surrounded by a crush of cameras, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert slouched silently into federal court in Chicago on Tuesday for his arraignment on felony charges that he violated federal banking laws and lied to law enforcement. It was the first time Hastert had been seen or heard</p></h2>
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            <p>Surrounded by a crush of cameras, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert slouched silently into federal court in Chicago on Tuesday for his arraignment on felony charges that he violated federal banking laws and lied to law enforcement. It was the first time Hastert had been seen or heard from since the charges — and rumors of sexual misconduct while he was a high school teacher and wrestling coach — became public. The proceedings were over in less than 20 minutes. "[Hastert] barely spoke," <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dennis-hastert-is-set-to-break-his-silence-in-chicago-courtroom/2015/06/09/4f91e822-0eba-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html?ref=avalancheghost.one">reports</a> the Washington Post. "... He did not even say “not guilty” — those words were uttered by Hastert’s attorney."</p>
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Surrounded by a crush of cameras, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert slouched silently into federal court in Chicago on Tuesday for his arraignment on felony charges that he violated federal banking laws and lied to law enforcement. It was the first time Hastert had been seen or heard from since the charges — and rumors of sexual misconduct while he was a high school teacher and wrestling coach — became public. The proceedings were over in less than 20 minutes. "[Hastert] barely spoke," reports the Washington Post. "... He did not even say “not guilty” — those words were uttered by Hastert’s attorney."

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By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,