by SOPHIA TESFAYE

Now that former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been arraigned for his part in what authorities claim was a decades long effort to keep secret his alleged sexual abuse of young boys during his days as a high school wrestling coach, his past records are drawing intensified scrutiny and — shocker – the evidence of his astronomical hypocrisy is growing.

The Republican firebrand is accused of lying to FBI investigators about a scheme to pay $3.5 million to a former student for reported sexual misconduct by Hastert while he was high school teacher from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.