WAPO: Hastert made $2 million profit on earmark land deal....

House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) made a $2 million profit last year on the sale of land 5 1/2 miles from a highway project that he helped to finance with targeted federal funds.

A Republican House member from California, meanwhile, received nearly double what he paid for a four-acre parcel near an Air Force base after securing $8 million for a planned freeway interchange 16 miles away. And another California GOP congressman obtained funding in last year's highway bill for street improvements near a planned residential and commercial development that he co-owns

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In 2002, Hastert was driving to a parade in Sycamore, Ill., when he saw a post-and-beam house he fell in love with, according to Dallas C. Ingemunson, a longtime friend and ally of Hastert's who made the land deals for the speaker.

What he really fell in love with was the money....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062102210.html

year off of speeches and his book. Like it was another "Whitewater" matter.

These guys make Whitewater look like an Avon sale.

The millions of dollars that Ken Starr spent investigating Whitewater, which was child's play compared to this deal.