Hastert Got 300% Return On Questionable Land Deal...

ABC News Rhonda Schwartz June 16, 2006 at 10:29 AM

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) realized an estimated $2 million dollar profit last year on an Illinois land deal that included acreage near a future interstate highway Hastert pushed to build.

The land was sold just five months after Hastert inserted a $207 million appropriation bill for the Prairie Parkway highway during a closed-door Congressional budget conference.

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