Andy Richter said he remembers seeing Dennis Hastert watching boys shower

Andy Richter
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Ahead of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's sentencing on bank fraud charges later in April, prosecutors Friday filed a memo detailing for the first time the former high school wrestling coach's alleged sexual abuse of boys.

The document included the claim that Hastert positioned a chair so that he could watch boys shower. Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter, who attended Yorkville High School in the '80s, backed up the claim Saturday on Twitter.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.