- Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has died at the age of 84 from natural causes, according to Illinois officials.
- Hastert served as the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House between 1999 and 2007 across the Clinton and Bush administrations.
- His political legacy was ruined when details emerged showing he sexually abused teenage boys while working as a high school teacher and wrestling coach from the 1960s to early 1980s.
- In 2016, he received a 15-month prison sentence for federal banking violations linked to structuring hush-money payments to cover up his past abuse.
- Following his conviction, Hastert's portrait was removed from the U.S. Capitol and his name was erased from a public policy center at his alma mater.
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