Billings Woman Says Her Brother Was Sexually Abused by Dennis Hastert

A Montana woman says the FBI interviewed her last month about her allegations that her brother was sexually abused while in high school by Dennis Hastert, the wrestling coach who would become speaker of the House.

Hastert was charged last week in a federal indictment that alleges he agreed in 2010 to pay $3.5 million to someone from Yorkville, the Illinois town where he taught and coached high school wrestling, so the person would stay quiet about "prior misconduct."

Jolene Burdge of Billings told The Associated Press on Thursday that the FBI interviewed her in mid-May about Hastert. She said her brother told her before he died in 1995 that his first homosexual contact was with Hastert and that it lasted through all of his high school years.

Burdge would not disclose her brother's name to AP but in an interview aired Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Burdge identified her brother as Stephen Reinboldt. The AP could not independently verify her allegations.