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CHICAGO (AP) — Imprisoned former House speaker Dennis Hastert wants one of his sexual abuse victims to return the $1.7 million in hush money the Illinois Republican paid him over several years, according to a court filing this week in an ongoing civil case. 
  
 The document is a counter claim to the victim's breach-of-contract lawsuit that he filed last year, arguing that Hastert owed him $1.8 million — what he said was the unpaid balance of an unwritten $3.5 million hush-money deal. 
  
 Hastert, 75, is serving a 15-month sentence in a federal prison for violating banking laws as he withdrew thousands of dollars, starting in 2010, to pay the victim, abruptly halting the payments after the FBI interviewed Hastert in late 2014. 
  
 Documents in Hastert's federal criminal case say he abused the victim — referred to in filings only as "Individual A" — when he was 14 in the late 1970s when Hastert coached wrestling at suburban Chicago's Yorkville High School. 
  
 The Wednesday filing on Hastert's behalf in Kendall County Circuit Court asserts the victim was obliged to keep quiet about their deal "for the remainder of his life." 
  
 "Since Plaintiff breached his obligations ... any nonperformance on the part of Defendant (Hastert) is excused," the filing said. It adds: "Plaintiff's retention of the $1.7 million is unjust." 
  
 At Hastert's April sentencing, a federal judge dubbed him "a serial child molester", saying he sexually abused at least four former students at Yorkville from 1965 to 1981. 
  
 A Thursday statement from the victim's attorney, Kristi Browne, criticized Hastert's filing. 
  
 "Mr. Hastert has decided that rather than live up to his promise to compensate his victim for his molestation and resulting injury, he will ask his victim to pay him," Browne said. 
  
 Federal prosecutors have said Individual A did not threaten to expose Hastert if he didn't pay, adding they don't regard the payments as part of an extortion. It was Hastert, they said, who refused Individual A's request to bring in lawyers and put the deal in writing. 
  
 Prosecutors have also said they would have charged Hastert with sexual abuse if they could have. But the statute of limitations expired decades ago, so the only option for offering those abused some semblance of justice, prosecutors said, was to charge him with comparatively mundane banking violations. 
  
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 Jailed former House Speaker Dennis Hastert says a man who accused him of sexual abuse should return $1.7 million in hush money because he broke his silence by talking to the feds. 
  
 The demand was made in Hastert's response to a lawsuit filed by the accuser, known only as Individual A, who is trying to recoup the rest of the money the politician promised him. 
  
 "To the extent any contract existed between plaintiff [Individual A] and defendant [Hastert], plaintiff breached that contract," Hastert's lawyers wrote. 
  
 "Plaintiff's breach of conduct resulted in damages to defendant and plaintiff is accordingly required to return $1.7 million to defendant." 
  
 Individual A spoke to FBI agents who contacted him about his agreement with Hastert, but otherwise he has never spoken publicly about his accusations. 
  
 His attorney, Kristi Browne, said it was Hastert who had reneged. 
  
 "Mr. Hastert has decided that rather than live up to his promise to compensate his victim for his molestation and resulting injury, he will ask his victim to pay him," she said in a statement. 
  
 "He admits to agreeing to make payments, but then denies that it is an agreement that he has to keep. His response is predictable and we look forward to entering the discovery phase of the case." 
  
 Dennis Hastert in a yearbook photo. NBC News 
  
 Hastert, 75, was sentenced in April to 15 months in prison for making illegal cash withdrawals to pay Individual A and quash allegations he abused teenage boys while he was a high-school wrestling coach decades ago. 
  
 Although the disgraced power broker was not charged with any sex crimes because the statute of limitations had passed, the judge in the case branded him a "serial child molester" and ordered him to enroll in a sex-offender treatment program. 
  
 Related: Hastert Accuser: 'I Could No Longer Remain Silent' 
  
 The alleged abuse took place well before Hastert became the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives in 1999. A few years after he retired, he was confronted by Individual A about misconduct on a wrestling trip in 1974. 
  
 Hastert agreed to pay Individual A $3.5 million and had forked over $1.7 million of that sum when federal investigators began looking into his unusual bank withdrawals. 
  
 Hastert claimed he was a victim of extortion but after FBI agents interviewed Individual A, they found his account of molestation credible. 
  
 After Hastert pleaded guilty to the financial crime, Individual A sued him, saying he was still owed $1.8 million. In his response, Hastert says there was no legal contract and even if there was, his accuser would have broken it. 
  
 Individual A's "retention of the $1.7 million is unjust," his attorneys wrote. 
  
 Not only does Hastert want his money back, he thinks Individual A should pay his attorney's fees. 
  
 At his sentencing, Hastert admitted he "mistreated" and "took advantage" of former students who came forward to say they were molested -- three of them anonymously. 
  
 "What I did was wrong and I regret it," he said at the time. ||||| Imprisoned former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has asked a Kendall County judge to not only reject a sexual abuse victim's breach-of-contract lawsuit, but also to make the man pay back $1.7 million in secret hush-money payments. 
  
 In response to the lawsuit and in his counterclaim, made public Thursday and signed by Hastert, he denied that the oral pact is akin to a valid and enforceable contract and, if so, it would be the plaintiff who breached it when he broke his silence and spoke to federal authorities. 
  
 The lawsuit was filed in April by a now middle-age married man whom Hastert coached decades ago at Yorkville High School. 
  
 The man, known as Individual A in the federal case, said Hastert had agreed in 2010 to pay him $3.5 million if he didn't disclose publicly that Hastert inappropriately touched him in the 1970s, when Individual A was 14, during a wrestling trip while the two stayed overnight in a hotel room. Hastert was close friends with his boy's parents. 
  
 Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert served 13 months in a Minnesota federal prison hospital after pleading guilty to a financial crime. He was released in July 2017. 
  
 He went on to become a standout student-athlete in high school but later suffered panic attacks, unemployment, bouts of depression and psychiatric treatment, according to his lawsuit. 
  
 His attorney called Hastert's response "predictable." 
  
 "Mr. Hastert has decided that rather than live up to his promise to compensate his victim for his molestation and resulting injury, he will ask his victim to pay him," attorney Kristi Browne said. "He admits to agreeing to make payments, but then denies that it is an agreement that he has to keep." 
  
 Hastert paid the former wrestler $1.7 million over 41/2 years through 2014, but he stopped making payments that December after the FBI questioned him in his Plano home about the large bank withdrawals. Hastert is serving a 15-month federal prison sentence in Rochester, Minn., for illegally structuring the bank withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements. 
  
 In his lawsuit, Individual A asks that Hastert pay the remaining $1.8 million. 
  
 At his April sentencing hearing, Hastert admitted to inappropriate conduct with the man and some of his former student-athletes before going into politics in the 1980s. In his latest response to the lawsuit, regarding the sexual abuse allegations, Hastert said he had "insufficient information with which to admit or deny the allegations." 
  
 Browne said the oral agreement with Hastert was similar to an out-of-court settlement had he filed a personal injury claim. In response, Hastert attorney John Ellis has argued the man would have been legally barred from pursuing such a claim. Ellis also raised several other legal defenses in his latest response, including that any pact is unenforceable because Hastert would have been under "duress" at the time an alleged contract was formed. 
  
 The accuser's "retention of the $1.7 million is unjust," Ellis wrote. Hastert also is seeking "reasonable expenses, attorneys' fees, and costs." 
  
 Hastert had admitted in a plea agreement with prosecutors that he was making the withdrawals to pay off the man to hide wrongdoing from his past. 
  
 Federal prosecutors said Hastert inappropriately touched several male students when he was a wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981. The statute of limitations to bring charges for sexual abuse had long since run out, and prosecutors said their best option for holding Hastert accountable was for banking violations. 
  
 His bombshell federal indictment was made public in May 2015. For nearly a year afterward, federal prosecutors kept any mention of Hastert's sexual abuse of children confidential in the proceedings. But a Tribune investigation uncovered the nature of the allegations and identities of most of Hastert's victims, including Individual A. The man, who retired early from his chosen profession, has declined requests for comment, but his wife has acknowledged to the Tribune that he is a victim. 
  
 The Tribune typically does not name victims of sexual crimes without their permission. 
  
 Another of Hastert's accusers was Scott Cross, a younger brother of former Illinois House Republican leader Tom Cross. Scott Cross appeared publicly during Hastert's sentencing hearing in Chicago and detailed a one-time incident in fall 1979 in which he said Hastert inappropriately touched him during a massage after wrestling practice. 
  
 The case began to unfold after a Yorkville bank noticed Hastert making suspicious withdrawals. In December 2014, FBI agents confronted Hastert. He told them he was trying to keep his money safe, but he later alleged he was a victim of an extortion plot. At the request of authorities, Hastert secretly recorded two calls to Individual A to catch him making threats, but agents soon realized it was Hastert who was lying. 
  
 Hastert, 75, is due to be paroled in August. 
  
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Dennis Hastert has had seven months behind bars to figure out his next move, and he's just made a big one. The former US speaker of the House is not only asking a judge to spurn a breach-of-contract complaint filed against him by a man who says Hastert sexually abused him as a teen, he's also demanding his accuser pay him back $1.7 million that was given to keep the man quiet about his allegations, the Chicago Tribune reports. The man known in court documents as Individual A says his 2010 oral contract with Hastert—who's been behind bars in Minnesota since June, serving out a 15-month sentence for trying to finagle bank withdrawals so no one would know he was obtaining the so-called "hush money"—called for a total payout of $3.5 million. Individual A filed a suit against Hastert in April asking for the remaining $1.8 million, which Hastert says isn't coming. Not only that, but he says the money he already gave Individual A is due back to him since the man broke his word on the unwritten deal and talked to the FBI, NBC News reports. Hastert's counterclaim filing Wednesday in Illinois' Kendall County Circuit Court said Individual A was supposed to keep quiet "for the remainder of his life," per the AP. Hastert also wants his attorneys' fees paid for by his accuser. Individual A's lawyer, Kristi Browne, says Hastert's latest maneuver is "predictable." "He admits to agreeing to make payments, but then denies that it is an agreement that he has to keep," she says, per the Tribune. Hastert, 75, who wasn't actually charged with any sex crimes in the case due to an expired statute of limitations, is set to be paroled in August.