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American politician (born 1942)
A clear, comprehensive roster of Republican officials actually convicted of sex crimes is difficult to compile from the provided reporting because many sources conflate allegations, ethics findings, r...
The assembled source material shows isolated, well-documented cases of Republican politicians charged with or convicted of child sex offenses — including RJ May, John Jessup, Dennis Hastert and Roy Mo...
Between 2015 and 2025, the evidence provided shows , with Anthony Weiner standing out as a confirmed conviction for sending sexually explicit material to a minor (pleaded guilty and sentenced in 2017)...
Dennis Hastert was accused in federal filings of sexually abusing multiple boys decades earlier while a high school wrestling coach and of structuring bank withdrawals to pay millions in hush money; h...
Two high‑profile Republicans appear in the supplied reporting as having federal criminal convictions tied to sexual misconduct or the cover‑up of sexual misconduct: former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Ha...
Dennis Hastert resigned from Congress in 2007 and later left a lobbying job the same day his 2015 indictment was unsealed; prosecutors say the financial crimes that produced the indictment were tied t...
Available sources list multiple U.S. federal politicians convicted of sexual crimes over recent decades, including high‑profile cases such as Rep. Mel Reynolds (Democrat) and Rep. Anthony Weiner (Demo...
Available reporting documents multiple instances in which Republican politicians or Republican-aligned staff were prosecuted or convicted for sexual crimes involving minors or child sexual material — ...
Reporting and compiled lists identify a small number of high-profile U.S. politicians since 2000 who were criminally convicted for sex crimes involving minors — most prominently former Rep. Anthony We...
The public allegations tying Dennis Hastert to sexual misconduct first became widely known in 2015 after a federal indictment for banking crimes revealed prosecutors believed large cash withdrawals we...
Reporting and public databases identify a small number of high‑profile U.S. politicians convicted of child sexual abuse since 2000, with Dennis Hastert—former Speaker of the U.S. House—among the most ...
High-profile elected officials and political operatives have been convicted in the past 20 years of crimes involving children at federal, state and local levels — examples in the available reporting i...
Two distinct claims appear in the materials: (A) specific Republican lawmakers have been criminally charged for sexual crimes involving minors or possession/distribution of child sexual‑abuse material...
Multiple documented instances show Republican lawmakers and Republican-affiliated figures have been accused of sexual misconduct involving minors or of enabling those who did, and recent investigation...
Republican leaders initially defended Dennis Hastert and resisted calls for his immediate resignation amid the Mark Foley page scandal and other controversies, portraying him as a steady, principled s...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive count of elected Republicans charged for sexual misconduct nationwide since 2000; reporting projects track allegations and incidents in slices (e....
Available sources document multiple recent cases in which current or former U.S. state and federal elected officials have been charged or convicted for child-sex offenses — for example, former North D...
There is no comprehensive, authoritative dataset in the provided sources that breaks down conviction rates for sexual offenses involving minors by U.S. political party; available reporting catalogs ac...
Dennis Hastert stepped down as Speaker and left Congress in 2007; contemporary accounts in the provided material place his effective departure from the speakership and from his House seat in late 2007...