WASHINGTON -- The House ethics committee concluded yesterday that House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois, and his top staff probably knew for months, if not years, of then-Representative Mark Foley's inappropriate contact with former House pages but did nothing to protect the teenagers.The investigation out of the House ethics committee reveals that Dennis Hastert knew of Mark Foley's problems for quite some time before he admitted to knowing.
Top GOP House leaders also "failed to exercise appropriate diligence" in the matter, the committee's report found, and tried "to remain willfully ignorant of the potential consequences of Foley's conduct."
When Hastert and other Republicans in the House were told again this past spring of Mark Foley's criminal behavior toward underage pages, they blackmailed him out of another $100,000.
Dennis Hastert and Republican family values, right?
