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Beverley<BR>
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http://mccainkeatingfive.com/?p=47<BR>
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CHARLES KEATING LAW FIRM DONATES 50,000+ TO MCCAIN CAMPAIGN<BR>
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Posted by Admin <BR>
While many Americans are scrambling trying to line up refinancing mortgage to stay in their homes, John McCain is busy taking campaign donations from the law firm of convicted felon Charles Keating, one of the masterminds of the Savings and Loan Scandal of the 1980’s that cost taxpayers $500 billion. Keating was convicted on over 70 felonies while running the Lincoln Savings and Loan. John McCain played a major part in the scandal, and 20 years later, he still doesn’t have the common sense to realize he did anything wrong and is still benefiting financially from his relationship with Keating.<BR>
OpenSecrets.org reports, "In amounts ranging from $200 to $2,300, about 30 partners and employees of the legal firm Keating, Muething and Klekamp, as well as their family members, have contributed $50,200 to McCain’s 2008 campaign."<BR>
The country is in a recession, and McCain keeps taking donations from criminals who almost cost McCain his cushy job in the Senate 20 years ago.<BR>
The same Keating law firm got their start working with Carl Lindner, a Cincinnati businessman and one of the founders of National City Bank, who this week finally felt the effects of their questionable subprime lending on mortgages for bad credit. PNC Bank out of Pittsburgh bought up National City and is expected to close many branches and lay off employees. PNC was able to use up to $7.7 billion of taxpayer money to buy National City.<BR>
Keating was Lindner’s lawyer when they stole millions from Lindners Cincinatti bank in the 1970’s, which served as training for Keating to go do the same with his own bank in California a few years later.<BR>
So let’s get this straight. McCain and his friends run our financial institutions into the ground, force us, the taxpayers, to give billions to the rich Wall Street tycoons who then use that money to buy up failing banks from other fat cats.<BR>
And while all of this is going on, the people who have been involved in the Keating Five Scandal, Keating, Lindner, and McCain, are busy passing the hat back and forth amongst themselves.<BR>
(Further reading: Joe the Plumber is related to Charles Keating. Coincidence? No.)<BR>
I guess the upside for McCain is that if he needs to get second mortgages on his many homes, he knows who to turn to.</FONT></HTML>