There's doubt about it, positions of power have a tendency to attract the worst human beings, or inspire the worst behaviors in otherwise good people. Dennis Hastert would certainly fall under the former of those two categories.

The former congressman from Illinois was the longest running Republican Speaker of the House until he was unseated by Nancy Pelosi in 2007. However, his crimes go way back to before his political career. Last year he pleaded guilty to financial crimes, which led prosecutors towards a paper trail of payoffs.

They have asserted that Hastert molested several boys decades ago when he was the coach for a high school wrestling team. The documents they found while investigating his financial crimes show that he had been giving hush money to one of those students for years, which amounted to about $3.5 million. The man he was paying is one of 4 who have admitted to being sexually abused by Hastert.