Global Financial News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Filed under: Law , Scandals , Politics , Financial Crisis This post is part of a feature in which he wonder whatever happened to some notorious financial felons. See all 17 . I thought we'd have heard more about Charles Keating over the last few weeks of the 2008 presidential election, but much to my surprise the Obama campaign refrained from mentioning him. Keating was once the...
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Filed under: Law , Scandals , Politics , Financial Crisis This post is part of a feature in which he wonder whatever happened to some notorious financial felons. See all 17 . I thought we'd have heard more about Charles Keating over the last few weeks of the 2008 presidential election, but much to my surprise the Obama campaign refrained from mentioning him. Keating was once the...
PERRspectives Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
As he launched his first presidential run in 2000, John McCain said of the Keating Five scandal that nearly ended his career, "it was the wrong thing to do, and it will be on my tombstone and deservedly so." But...
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
John McCain survived the Keating Five Scandal because he is a sociopath who can tell a lie with the most sincere, straight face. He is especially adept at that. McCain sought out a master criminal like Keating and became his friend. After helping Charlie Keating plunder billions in life savings, much of it from senior citizens, McCain discarded Keating and sold out and backstabbed...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
Bundle of donations brings back memories of 'Keating Five' scandal.
LA Biz Observed (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... industry, and federal investigators later concluded he played a key role in the collapse of Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan by delaying and impeding proper oversight of that thrift's operations. Dochow was shunted aside in the aftermath and sent to the agency's Seattle office. Several of his former colleagues and superiors say he eventually reestablished himself as a credible...
Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Via Ken Silverstein, Harper’s… It turns out that many of the recent Sarah Palin is dumb stories are part of an elaborate hoax. The story about Joe the Plumber being related to Charles Keating? Also a hoax.
Shoutingatmytv.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Writer Peter Ognibene has a great post on HuffPpo this morning of Obama’s handling of McCain’s involvement with Charles Keating in the S&L scandal in the ‘80s, describing a short YouTube video the Obama campaign produced in early October as...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
... Obama launched a brilliant shot across the bow when his campaign released a 13-minute video, "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis." The video had its own web site , but the logo at the bottom of the screen made clear its provenance: "Paid For by Obama for America." Except for music eerily reminiscent of the old Twilight Zone , the video was low-key, straightforward...
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... a casino in Baghdad's Green Zone, the assertion that Joe the Plumber was related to McCain nemesis Charles Keating, angry calls to the McCain campaign from Paris Hilton's family.The Harding Institute Web site is a not bad parody of a typical think tank Web site. It references a disastrous computer crash to explain its lack of depth and archives. The site currently has Eisenstadt/Gorlin...
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... Last month Eisenstadt blogged that Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber, was closely related to Charles Keating, the disgraced former savings and loan chief. It wasn't true, but other bloggers ran with it.
A Mobile News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
It would be no news at all to DWT readers that even if McCain escaped doing hard prison time for his Keating Five corruption, he certainly should have been kicked out of the revolting Gentleman’s Club known as the United States Senate for accepting massive bribes from bank swindler and close family friend Charles Keating. [...]
qwstnevrythg.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
How Did McCain Escape Expulsion from the Senate?… John McCain, according to a revelatory article in The New Republic, was almost certainly the source for illegal leaks during the Keating Five investigation — leaks that, if proven, would have been cause for his expulsion from the United States Senate for perjury. Additionally, according to [...]
CNN (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The former Navy fighter pilot, who'd been shot down over North Vietnam and held as a POW, had been able to battle back every time until Tuesday night. He regained respect in the Senate after being accused of improperly helping fraudster savings and loan chief Charles Keating in the 1980s; he got back on speaking terms with the Republican Party base after his primary defeat against George...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Joe the Plumber, nephew of Charles Keating cohorts via Lincoln Savings and Loan's thief of MILLIONS, tax cheater, wife beater, confessed perjurer .... discussed by rabid FOX news GOP'er Conservative Malzberg insisted: ".. even though the actual Joe Wurzelbacher would do far better under Obama's tax plans, the real point is that raising taxes on the wealthy to give relief to the middle...
