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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2014, 10:56 AM Apr 2014

Charles Keating Has Died...One of the "Keating 5" is still in the Senate...

Has run for president, and the idiots in the media still think he's honorable and actually knows something. Idiots...

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/02/298110746/savings-and-loan-figure-charles-keating-dies-at-90

Charles H. Keating Jr., the notorious financier who served prison time and was disgraced for his role in the costliest savings and loan failure of the 1980s, has died. He was 90.

A person with direct knowledge of the death confirmed on Tuesday that Keating had died but didn't provide further details. The person wasn't authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity.

When Keating's Phoenix-based home construction company, American Continental Corp., bought Lincoln Savings & Loan in 1984, the multimillionaire elevated its worth from $1.1 billion to $5.5 billion in a four-year period.

But his financial empire crumbled with state and federal convictions for defrauding investors. Keating allegedly bilked Lincoln customers by selling them $200 million of unsecured "junk" bonds. They became worthless when Keating's company became bankrupt.

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