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Records reveal Hastert's hand in land deal

$3 million gain for 3 partners in 3 years

Publication: Chicago Tribune

Mike Dorning and Andrew Zajac
June 15, 2006

Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert and two partners turned a profit of more than $3 million on property they accumulated and sold in just over three years near the route of a proposed controversial freeway on the western fringe of suburban Chicago, according to land records and financial disclosure reports released Wednesday.