{"id":2873,"date":"2006-05-24T20:44:32","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T00:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2007-01-14T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T00:01:32","slug":"flashback-an-earlier-chapter-in-the-hastert-bribery-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2873","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: An Earlier Chapter in the Hastert Bribery Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/HastertAbramoff.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">As controversy swirls again around House Speaker Dennis Hastert and whether <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2006\/05\/federal_officia.html\">he is<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2006\/05\/abc_news_update.html\">isn&#8217;t<\/a> under investigation by the DoJ on bribery related charges as ABC News is reporting (and standing by), now might be a good time to remind of you <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002384.htm\">this earlier exclusive<\/a> which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> reported in February concerning FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds&#8217; charges that Hastert may be involved with yet another bribery scandal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002384.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/SibelEdmonds_Thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>In light of today&#8217;s new story, it may well be worth taking a look back at that <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002384.htm\">previous piece<\/a> including a detailed statement from Edmonds wherein she calls on Hastert to &#8220;come clean&#8221; in regard to $500k in un-itemized campaign donations and his relationships with various Turkish interest groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As controversy swirls again around House Speaker Dennis Hastert and whether he is or isn&#8217;t under investigation by the DoJ on bribery related charges as ABC News is reporting (and standing by), now might be a good time to remind of you this earlier exclusive which The BRAD BLOG reported in February concerning FBI whistleblower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,58,110],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-hastert","category-sibel-edmonds","category-whistleblowers","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}