Letters in support of Hastert

[quade 4]

I’m sorry, but if you’re supporting a child molester I’ve lost all respect for you.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-dennis-hastert-letters-met-20160422-story.html

What is especially telling are those individuals who wrote letters, but then attempted to have them sealed from public view.

Fuck those guys.

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[jakee 1,594]

quade

I’m sorry, but if you’re supporting a child molester I’ve lost all respect for you.

Fuck those guys.

To be fair, from your link: "The 41 letters made public were mostly written in late February and early March — before prosecutors detailed sex abuse allegations against Hastert from decades ago....

He pleaded guilty in October to one count of illegally structuring bank withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements, admitting in a plea agreement that he'd paid $1.7 million in cash to a person identified only as Individual A to cover up unspecified misconduct from decades earlier."

They weren't supporting a child molester if they didn't know he was a child molester.

(TBH it would probably be appropriate for the defence to have to contact those people and ask if they still wanted to support him, given what they now know!)

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[SkyDekker 1,465]

To me this case is a prime example of the insanity of the US justice system. This guy's maximum sentence is 5 years and most likely will get some conditional sentence. In the mean time people are serving life in prison, without any possibility of parole, for shoplifting.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

jakee

***I’m sorry, but if you’re supporting a child molester I’ve lost all respect for you.

Fuck those guys.

To be fair, from your link: "The 41 letters made public were mostly written in late February and early March — before prosecutors detailed sex abuse allegations against Hastert from decades ago....

He pleaded guilty in October to one count of illegally structuring bank withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements, admitting in a plea agreement that he'd paid $1.7 million in cash to a person identified only as Individual A to cover up unspecified misconduct from decades earlier."

They weren't supporting a child molester if they didn't know he was a child molester.

(TBH it would probably be appropriate for the defence to have to contact those people and ask if they still wanted to support him, given what they now know!)

Considering a few people have withdrawn their support letter according to the article, I am led to believe everybody had that possibility after this information came to light.