Dennis Hastert, highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve prison sentence, dies at 84

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Former Republican U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert died at age 84 on October 17, 2023, due to natural causes at his home in Illinois, according to Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell. A long-serving political figure who led the House from 1999 until 2007, Hastert's legacy was marred by a scandal involving sexual abuse of teenage boys when he coached wrestling decades earlier. In 2015, Hastert pled guilty to structuring bank transactions and making false statements to evade reporting requirements for hush money payments intended to cover up his past misconduct. He served 15 months in federal prison from April 2016 to July 2017, becoming one of the highest-ranking U.S. officials ever jailed.

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