Ex-House Speaker settles child sexual abuse payments suit – A.P. Illinois

The settlement was arrived at just days before a civil trial in the case that was set to start. It would have focused on a novel legal issue about whether Dennis Hastert’s verbal agreement to pay $3.5 million to buy the silence of a man he abused as a teenager amounted to a legally binding contract.

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