Dennis Hastert Watched Boys Shower, Sat in Big, Comfy Chair

Shower time in the Yorkville High School boys locker room was a floor show for wrestling coach and teacher Dennis Hastert.

The disgraced former U.S. House Speaker from Kendall County — investigated by the feds for banking irregularities related to hush-money payoffs to keep his sexual behavior secret — set up a Lazyboy-type chair outside the locker-room shower so he could watch the boys, according to documents filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in federal court.

Purportedly, this was so he could prevent the boys from fighting. Years of sitting in a comfy chair watching wet, naked boys. And that wasn't suspicious to anyone.

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Comedian Andy Richter, an actor, writer and sidekick on the Conan O'Brien show, is a Yorkville High alum. He tweeted about the revelations Saturday morning.

"I haven't thought of it in 30 yrs," Richter wrote in another post.

But now, the 74-year-old Hastert has become a national embarrassment. Once revered as a high school teacher and coach, then as a long-serving Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, he's soon to be sentenced for a banking crime. Much of the focus has been on his duplicitous sex life, however, as revealed in the federal court filings, and the breach of trust with the community and the high school boys he coached as a younger man.

Hastert is not charged with sex crimes related to his behavior despite the detailed information prosecutors are providing in court papers.

Hastert was charged with structuring, a financial crime related to how he moved money from his bank without proper financial reporting. He was using the money, more than $1 million, to pay off one of his former students whom he'd sexually abused during those high school years, according to the federal charges. In 2014, Hastert told FBI agents he was being extorted for $3.5 million.

Hastert pleaded guilty on the structuring charges in October, but his sentencing has been delayed and rescheduled because he was hospitalized for severe illness. His lawyer says he almost died. Sentencing guidelines suggest a prison term of no more than six months, but the judge could ignore those. At least one victim of Hastert's sexual behavior could testify at his sentencing.