Hastert is the same charge as Martha Stewart

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Submitted by Lyle (United States), Jun 3, 2015 23:46

I think it's a case of make the point that lying to the FBI is a very bad thing to do. They have a chance to make an example of someone that the media will report on. This is a very common prosecutorial technique to deter others from doing the same thing.

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