Last week, we noted House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s (R-IL) sweet real estate deal – a deal that, as many TPM readers pointed out, Tammany Hall pol George Washington Plunkitt would have dismissed as ” honest graft.” “I seen my opportunities and I took ’em,” Hastert might say.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=183082