Policy · 114th Congress
Fighting College Rape Gets Personal for Senators
“Sometimes they would ask, why is he still in school? Why is he still in school?”
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“Sometimes they would ask, why is he still in school? Why is he still in school?”
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) YORKVILLE, Ill. — Jeff Nix wasn’t allowed to go on team road trips with high school wrestling coach Denny Hastert. His mother wouldn’t let him.
Prosecutors say he was trying to conceal his sexual abuse of a male student at the Yorkville high school where he taught and coached in the 1970s.
Hastert, the longest serving Republican House speaker, was a teacher and wrestling coach at Yorkville High School from 1965 to 1981 before he became involved in politics.
Out of high school, Kent opted to join the Navy rather than incur student debt to obtain a degree that provided no guarantee of employment.
Landrigan, a pediatrician and epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, whose research played a key role in the phasing out of lead in gasoline.
Instead, they uncovered the secrets that Hastert had spent more than $1.7 million to hide: Details of how he molested four underage boys in motel and locker rooms during his years as a high school
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(Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Rothfus, 53, a Notre Dame Law School graduate who wants to repeal the health care law, said there are several Catholic entities in his Pittsburgh-area district
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But it was revealed in court that Hastert had been accused of sexual misconduct from when he was a high school wrestling coach and teacher, prior to holding elected office, according to the court
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