Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84

Dennis Hastert, a former House speaker who was jailed for violating banking laws, has died, an Illinois coroner said. He was 84.

The Republican, who was sent to prison in 2016 in a hush-money case tied to the allegations, died over the weekend Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican US House speaker, died over the weekend, a coroner said Monday. He was 84. Hastert, who was speaker from 1999 until 2007, died of natural causes at his home, according to Jacquie Purcell, the Kendall county coroner. Continue reading...

Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in U.S. history who later admitted sexually abusing several teenage boys, died Saturday at 84. The big picture: Hastert was the highest-ranking elected official in U.S. history to serve time in federal prison, and Congress still conducts business under an unwritten rule bearing his name. Driving the news: Hastert died at his home in Plano, Illinois, while under hospice care, the Kendall County Coroner's Office told Axios in an emailed statem

The Illinois Republican helped spearhead President George W. Bush’s legislative agenda before his career ended in disgrace.

Dennis Hastert, who served as House speaker longer than any other Republican but later was sent to prison in a hush-money case, has died

The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.

Former Rep. Dennis Hastert, who spent eight years as House speaker and later served prison time for scheming to cover up sexual abuse allegations, is dead.

Former GOP Speaker John Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) died over the weekend at his home “due to natural causes,” according to Illinois’ Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell. Hastert, 84, served as Speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007, until Democrats won back the lower chamber and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) succeeded him. He announced that…

Former Republican U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert died over the weekend at the age of 84. Hastert died at his home due to natural causes, according to the Kendall County, Illinois, Coroner’s Office. The former Republican representative from Northern Illinois served in Congress from 1987 until he resigned in November 2007, representing Illinois’s 14th Congressional […]