Without knowing much detail, I find this article to be deeply disturbing.
It seems that the crime that Dennis Hastert is accused of, is being a victim of a successful blackmailer, and "structuring" his cash withdrawals that he made to pay off and appease the blackmailer.
Added to that is "lying to investigators", which seems like a garden variety retort that he "kept the money for himself".
Is that really the kind of criminal behavior that endangers our society? What else is going on, is he falling victim to powerful enemies?
I read some other stories recently, where "Muslim extremists" are similarly pursued by the FBI and put in prison for some ridiculous "crimes" like lying to the FBI. OK, in that case at least these "extremists" are sworn and overt enemies of the USA, so I wrote that off as a new normal.
But what about Dennis Hastert?
i