dennis hastert: Why is this trending now

Dennis Hastert is trending following the announcement that he has died at the age of 84.

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According to local officials in Illinois, the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives passed away at his home from natural causes over the weekend. His death has brought renewed attention to both his political careerserving as House Speaker from 1999 to 2007and his subsequent downfall, which culminated in a 2016 federal prison sentence stemming from a hush-money case tied to past sexual abuse of high school students he had coached decades earlier.

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