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Opinion: An HBO documentary about the Ohio State wrestlers who suffered sexual abuse shows they deserve support and compassion, while Jordan deserves to be expelled from Congress, writes John Casey.
"There can be no ambiguity," said federal prosecutors in court papers that for the first time revealed the former House speaker had molested boys in a case of "stunning hypocrisy."
A woman comes forward to accuse former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert as 'the one who was abusing' her brother in high school.
Hastert, a former wrestling coach, went to jail for paying a man off who he sexually abused as a youth. Jordan, a former wrestling coach at Ohio State, has his own imbroglio.
The attorney for the disgraced former speaker of the House confirms a deal to avoid a trial that would almost certainly include allegations he had a gay relationship with a student he coached.
The once esteemed speaker of the House has been exposed as a pedophile and convicted for bank fraud.
House speaker Dennis Hastert's job is on the line as members of the Ethics Committee decide how to launch a credible investigation of former congressman Mark Foley's salacious computer messages to teenage pages.
President Bush on Wednesday called ex-congressman Mark Foley's conduct regarding House male pages ''disgusting'' and expressed support for Speaker Dennis Hastert's efforts to determine how officials handled the problem.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert is getting backup from President Bush and other GOP luminaries after vowing not to resign over his handling of the unfolding congressional page cybersex scandal, even as more pages approached by Foley came forward.
The House page scandal engulfing former congressman Mark Foley and House Republicans persists as Speaker Dennis Hastert works to hold on to his job and rank-and-file Republicans worry that the pre-election drip-drip of damaging political news isn't over yet.
Rep. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, who served as speaker of the House longer than any other Republican in history--and was in charge during the House page scandal last fall involving former Rep. Mark Foley--intends to retire next year at the end of his term, party officials said Tuesday.
As Congress reconvenes this week after its spring recess, Senate majority leader Bill Frist, House speaker Dennis Hastert, and President Bush were put on notice by a coalition of LGBT Asian-American groups--led by the Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of New York--that the immigration reform bill currently pending is largely unacceptable.
The House Ethics Committee reported Friday that Republican lawmakers and aides failed to protect young male pages from former representative Mark Foley's improper advances, concluding an investigation into a scandal that convulsed Congress and contributed to the GOP defeat in November's election.
Lawmakers, following a request from the House Ethics Committee, are surveying aides and former House pages to find out if any of them had knowledge of ex-congressman Mark Foley's inappropriate conduct toward male pages.
Former congressman Mark Foley tried to meet with an underage former page, according to transcripts of their IM discussions. Associates dismiss his claims of alcoholism.
Pelosi has restored dignity to the speakership, for always being one of our fiercest allies, and leading the House with brains, brawn, and more.
Powerful and lucrative organizations hide crimes and mistake sexual assaults and pedophilia as "gay scandals."
