In 2004, former U.S. House speaker J. Dennis Hastert published a memoir titled “Speaker: Lessons from Forty Years in Coaching and Politics.” Hastert, who was a high school teacher and coach before entering politics 35 years ago, was indicted Thursday on charges that he broke banking laws and lied to federal investigators in an effort to pay large sums to an unnamed individual to cover up “past misconduct.” The unnamed person has known Hastert for most of his or her life, the indictment states, and grew up in Yorkville, Ill., where Hastert worked at Yorkville High School from 1965 to 1981.
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