maintain a taxpayer-funded office anywhere in the United States for up to five years…..Perks for ex-speakers date to 1959, according to the Congressional Research Service…. The purpose is to "facilitate the administration, settlement and conclusion of matters pertaining to or arising out of" a former speaker's tenure in the House….The office's spacious rooms -- part workplace, part museum -- are in a modern, two-story brick building next to the Kendall County Courthouse. Other tenants advertise on exterior signs, but not Hastert.
$1 million in taxpayer dollars in the last two years … thanks to a little-known perk given to ex-speakers.
paying monthly rent of $6,300 to a company partly owned by three sons of a Hastert mentor and business partner. Other public funds go for an $860-a-month 2008 GMC Yukon leased from a dealership owned by a Hastert friend and campaign donor.
Hastert represented Illinois in the House of Representatives for almost 21 years and was speaker for eight years. When Democrats regained the majority after the 2006 elections, Hastert lost the top spot. He had not been speaker for almost 11 months when he resigned from the House in November 2007.
Read more about this little known tax spending by clicking on the following: Former House Speaker Hastert's perk costs taxpayers $1M - Chicago Breaking News
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