A former president of the lower house of Congress, Dennis Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison for paying a victim excoach accused of having abused him as a child.
As part of a sentence that includes two years of probation, US District Judge Thomas Durkin of Chicago also recommended that Hastert participate in a treatment program for sex offenders.
Federal prosecutors said that Hastert man paid a total of $ 1.7 million-little less than half the amount acorded - between 2010 and 2014 in installments until the government began to investigate.