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WASHINGTON - JULY 28: Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (C) is joined by current Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) during a ceremony unveiling Hastert's portrati at the U.S. Capitol July 28, 2009 in Washington, DC. Hastert is the longest serving Republican speaker to date, holding the post from 1999-2007. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Nancy Pelosi;John Boehner;Dennis Hastert
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Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse following his arraignment on June 9, 2015, in Chicago.
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Hastert has pleaded guilty to a financial violation
Investigators: He paid $3.5 million in hush money to one of his accusers

(CNN)Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert sexually abused at least four boys when he coached wrestling at a high school in Illinois decades ago, federal prosecutors said.
In documents released Friday, prosecutors detailed stunning allegations against Hastert, the longest-running Republican speaker of the House.

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The revelation comes days before his April 27 sentencing in a financial violation case. He pleaded guilty last year to structuring money transactions to evade reporting where he took massive amounts of funds he was withdrawing.
Investigators said the transactions involved $3.5 million he paid in hush money to one of his accusers.
Prosecutors listed four boys Hastert allegedly abused at a high school in Yorkville, Illinois.
An additional one -- a fifth student -- died years later, according to the document.
Accuser allegedly paid off
The accusations came to light after investigators found out he was paying an ex-student to stay quiet about sexual abuse allegations, prosecutors allege.
The student was among four others who told investigators he abused them, including one who was 14 at the time, the documents allege.
The allegations date to the 1960s and 1970s, according to the prosecutors' court filing.
Hastert will not face sexual abuse charges because the statutes of limitation have expired.
Massages, sex acts alleged
All those who accused him of sexual abuse were wrestlers at the high school, according to the documents.
In two separate cases, Hastert massaged one boy each in a locker room and performed unspecified sexual acts on them, prosecutors allege.
In another instance, he allegedly massaged a boy's groin area and singled him out to stay in his hotel room during a wrestling camp.
Another accuser said Hastert touched him inappropriately in a "very weird" way while he was a student, prosecutors said.
"The actions at the core of this case took place not on the defendant's national public stage but in his private one-on-one encounters in an empty locker room and a motel room with minors that violated the special trust between those young boys and their coach," prosecutors said.
During his time at Yorkville High School, Hastert was a beloved coach. He was named Illinois coach of the year after leading the wrestling team to the state championship.

• Yeah, about that. Look, it's terrible enough that it may be true without liberals gleefully hoping it is.
  
  Hastert, yes, he's everything I can't stand about modern Republicans. Bigot. Raging homophobe. Religious fanatic. Uber conservative. Holier than thou. Etc. Etc. and so on.
  
  And now it appears he may be a child molester.
  
  And not just a child molester, but (insert dirty smirk) an abuser of boys.
  
  Oh frabulous joy, ha ha, and so on and so forth.
  
  Except ... if this is true, something I'll remind you has not been proven, it means that while Hastert is (surprise surprise) just another Christian conservative hypocrite (whoo hoo ha ha and so on and so forth), it ALSO means children were molested and likely damaged for life.
  
  Frankly that's a hell of a price to pay for a little schadenfreude.
  
  So, yes, to answer your question, I did hear about Dennis Hastert and it gives me no joy whatsoever. And that is all I have to say on the matter at this time.

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