Dear Snopes,
Is it true that amongst the leaked John Podesta email trove published by Wikileaks in 2016, is a missive from his brother Tony Podesta to the Ambassador for Global Environmental Affairs of Japan (cc’d to John Podesta), which stated that Tony Podesta has remained in close contact with former House Speaker, Dennis “Denny” Hastert, who was sentenced in 2016 to 15 months in jail for for illegally structuring bank transactions in an effort to cover up his sexual abuse of young members of a wrestling team he coached decades ago?
Is it true that in spite of his admission of guilt, “Hastert was not charged with sex crimes because the statute of limitations had passed, giving him a sort of immunity“? Is it also true that the Judge, Thomas M. Durkin, who presided over the case, summed up by saying “Some actions can obliterate a lifetime of good works. Nothing is more stunning than having ‘serial child molester’ and ‘speaker of the House’ in the same sentence.”?
DEAR SNOPES 