Dennis Hastert’s Plea, and His Silence
Burdge had actually told ABC News her story back in 2006, during the Foley scandal, but hadn’t wanted to speak on the record then and had no corroboration (and, the network said, Hastert denied it at the time). She says it was only a few weeks ago that F.B.I. agents came to visit her, with the questions she’d been waiting for someone to ask. She said that, when they did, she began to cry, and thought, “Stevie, we’ve done it. It’s going to happen. We’ve got him.”