据伊利诺伊州肯德尔县验尸官办公室周一消息，前众议院议长J.丹尼斯·哈斯特于上周末去世，享年84岁。
Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, who in the span of less than a decade went from being one of the nation’s most powerful politicians to serving a federal prison sentence, died over the weekend at age 84, the Kendall County, Ill., coroner’s office said Monday.
他在不到十年的时间里，从美国最有权势的政治人物之一沦为联邦监狱服刑人员。他此前一直接受临终关怀。
He had been under hospice care.
哈斯特是历史上任期最长的共和党众议院议长，2015年曾中风并住院接受治疗。
Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in history, suffered a stroke in 2015 that hospitalized him for an extended period.