Speaker Duped by Evangelist?

• By Mary Ann Akers
• Roll Call Staff
• Oct. 12, 2006, Midnight

An international evangelist, who apparently conned his way into Speaker Dennis Hastert’s (R) home in Illinois, actually is on a “crusade” to “save America from the wrath of God and Republicans abusing their power and mired in scandal,” the evangelist’s spokesman said Wednesday in an e-mail to reporters.