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   The Western Journal    
   February 8, 2018    
   When the government was poised to seize Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan in 1987, Keating decided to cash in the debts of the five senators, The Arizona Republic reported. Advertisement – story continues below. Keating wanted the senators to get regulators to drop the case against Lincoln whichà...     
  
   
   The Spokesman-Review    
   January 22, 2018    
   Lincoln Savings and Loan started in the 1920s, founded by some of Spokane's most prominent citizens. Through a merger it became Lincoln First Federal Savings, which was the name when it began buying up the corner of Lincoln and Riverside in 1959. All the buildings came down in 1962 and 1963.     
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Newsweek    
   December 5, 2017    
   President Donald Trump's personal lawyer John Dowd—who claims the president cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice because he is the nation's top law enforcement official—has a track record of winning many high-profile cases. A veteran Washington lawyer, Dowd, 76, in June joined Trump's legalà...     
  
   
   Phoenix New Times    
   September 25, 2017    
   Keating, who died in 2014, later served four-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan bank. The upscale resort — one of former President Obama's favorite places to stay in Phoenix — is now owned by Host Camelback, LLC, a subsidiary of Host Hotels and Resorts, whichà...     
  
   
   HuffPost    
   July 29, 2017    
   In 1989, despite his straight-arrow persona, he faced corruption allegations when the American Continental Corporation and its subsidiary Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed, companies both owned by Charles Keating. The failure cost taxpayers $3.4 billion and precipitated the Savings and Loan scandalà...     
  
   
   Carscoops    
   June 11, 2017    
   And the venture was spun off from (and continues to work closely with) the DriveTime Automotive Group, whose CEO Raymond Fidel was convicted alongside the elder Garcia in the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal. “A controlling shareholder having a fraud conviction is of interest to other shareholders,”à...     
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Politico    
   April 4, 2014    
   ... sold their influence to Keating and other corrupt savings-and-loan executives in exchange for large campaign donations. The Phoenician was one of the many then-unprofitable Arizona properties seized by the federal government after Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association went bust in 1989.     
  
   
   Los Angeles Times    
   April 1, 2014    
   Charles H. Keating Jr., who became the poster child of the savings and loan debacle 25 years ago after his Irvine thrift was seized by federal regulators in what at the time was the nation's costliest bank collapse, has died. He was 90. In the early 1990s, state and federal juries in Los Angeles convictedà...     
  
   
   Personal Liberty Digest    
   November 17, 2017    
   In 1989, McCain was caught with four other Senators trying to stifle an investigation by federal regulators into the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association on behalf of their benefactor, Lincoln's head man Charles Keating — as part of the overall Savings and Loan scandal — over fraudulent practices that ...     
  
   
   Phoenix New Times    
   September 25, 2017    
   Keating, who died in 2014, later served four-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan bank. The upscale ...     
  
   
   HuffPost    
   July 29, 2017    
   ... the American Continental Corporation and its subsidiary Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed, companies both owned by Charles Keating.     
  
   
   Carscoops    
   June 11, 2017    
   ... Automotive Group, whose CEO Raymond Fidel was convicted alongside the elder Garcia in the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal.     
  
   
   Florida Times-Union    
   May 28, 2017    
   The two elder Keatings were tied to a scandal involving Lincoln Savings and Loan where thousands of people lost their life savings in the late ...     
  
   
   Phoenix New Times    
   May 18, 2017    
   ... project of financier Charles Keating, who would eventually serve 4.5 years in prison for his role in the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan bank.     
  
   
   Roll Call    
   December 8, 2016    
   This led to rampant speculation, the catalyst being the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association — one of the largest S&Ls — headed by Charles Keating, whose malfeasance caused its bankruptcy in 1989, resulting in a chain reaction of other S&Ls to fail. The subsequent financial crisis led to millions of ...     
  
   
   Roll Call    
   December 8, 2016    
   This led to rampant speculation, the catalyst being the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association — one of the largest S&Ls — headed by Charles ...     
  
   
   Politico    
   April 4, 2014    
   ... one of the many then-unprofitable Arizona properties seized by the federal government after Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association ...     
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Los Angeles Times    
   April 1, 2014    
   Charles H. Keating Jr., who became the poster child of the savings and loan debacle 25 years ago after his Irvine thrift was seized by federal ...     
  
   
   Alton Daily News    
   February 27, 2017    
   After a long career, Ruth retired from the Lincoln Savings and Loan of Lincoln, Illinois. The family moved to Chautauqua, Illinois, where she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, a member of P.E.     
  
   
   Eurasia Review    
   January 26, 2017    
   As one of the "Keating Five," McCain was accused of improper intervention on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association in 1987. Rather than admit personal responsibility for his ethical misstep, surmises ...     
  
   
   Acton Institute (blog)    
   January 25, 2017    
   As one of the "Keating Five," McCain was accused of improper intervention on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association in 1987. The full text of the essay can be found here. Subscribe to the free, weekly ...     
  
   
   CBS News    
   January 11, 2017    
   His Lincoln Savings and Loan convinced customers to trade in federally insured certificates of deposit for rickety bonds that the S&L issued through its parent.     
  
   
   WHIO    
   December 8, 2016    
   Glenn's record in Congress was somewhat tarred by his involvement in the Keating Five scandal; Glenn was reprimanded for his links to Charles Keating, who ran Lincoln Savings and Loan, which collapsed and was bailed out by the feds. I always rememberà...     
  
   
   Roll Call    
   December 8, 2016    
   This led to rampant speculation, the catalyst being the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association - one of the largest S&Ls - headed by Charles Keating, whose malfeasance caused its bankruptcy in 1989, resulting in a chain reaction of other S&Ls to fail.     
  
   
   Online Athens    
   December 4, 2016    
   5, 1991 in Los Angeles following the reading of 17 guilty verdicts on 18 counts of securities fraud stemming from the collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan. At left is Keating's attorney, Stephen Neal. The Lincoln collapse will cost taxpayers $2.6 ...     
  
   
   MousePlanet    
   September 28, 2016    
   "Ever since I was a small boy in Illinois, I have had a great personal admiration for Abraham Lincoln," said Walt Disney during the broadcast of the episode Disneyland Around the Seasons (Dec. 18, 1966) when announcing The Great Moments with Mr.     
  
   
   CNBC    
   September 23, 2016    
   Anyone old enough to remember the video of former Lincoln Savings and Loan chief Charles Keating being led away in convict's attire can attest to that.     
  
   
   Vrij Nederland    
   September 2, 2016    
   Charles Keating klopte via zijn dubieuze Lincoln Savings and Loan-fonds zeventienduizend goedgelovige kleine investeerders in totaal 252 miljoen dollar uit de zak. De rechter veroordeelde 'de grootste zwendelaar die de Verenigde Staten ooit gekendà...     
  
   
   Huffington Post    
   July 26, 2016    
   The next year five U.S. Senators, known as the Keating Five, were investigated for corruption for their relationships with Charles Keating, Chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. Then things went bad for Trump. The Trump Taj Mahal wentà...     
  
   
   New York Times    
   July 8, 2016    
   Some of those junior investors are Italian retail bondholders - shades of Lincoln Savings and Loan there - which makes that politically unpalatable.     
  
   
   12news.com    
   May 3, 2016    
   Charles Keating Jr., who died in 2014 at age 90, was a banker and financier who bought Lincoln Savings and Loan of Irvine, Calif.     
  
   
   kgw.com    
   May 3, 2016    
   Charles Keating Jr., who died in 2014 at age 90, was a banker and financier who bought Lincoln Savings and Loan of Irvine, Calif.     
  
   
   Belfast Telegraph    
   April 26, 2016    
   ... taking misappropriated money from the atrocious 'Papa Doc' Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating, of the American giant mortgage company Lincoln Savings and Loan (prevalent in the Eighties US Savings ...     
  
   
   The Inquisitr    
   April 18, 2016    
   Cracking down on fraud since the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980's, Barron's reports that Black went after Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan, exposing the five U.S. Senators (dubbed the "Keating 5") who helped Keating. The New York Timesà...     
  
   
   Lincoln Courier    
   April 11, 2016    
   July 7, 1975- Lincoln Savings and Loan Association takes ownership of the building for $125,000. November 21, 1977-Lincoln Depot Inc. takes ownership of the property for $115,000.     
  
   
   MinnPost    
   March 30, 2016    
   To illustrate that favoritism, Bernstein brings up the example of the so-called Keating Five, five U.S. senators accused in 1989 of leveraging their authority to aid Charles Keating, who chaired an embattled savings and loan company, Lincoln Savings ...     
  
   
   MinnPost    
   March 30, 2016    
   To illustrate that favoritism, Bernstein brings up the example of the so-called Keating Five, five U.S. senators accused in 1989 of leveraging their authority to aid Charles Keating, who chaired an embattled savings and loan company, Lincoln Savings ...     
  
   
   The Smoking Gun    
   February 16, 2016    
   Financier Charles Keating, Jr., who came in second, would later be imprisoned for fleecing investors in the notorious Lincoln Savings and Loan Association scandal. Weichselbaum, a Brooklyn native, cut a distinctive figure. At a slender 6' 2", he was ...     
  
   
   The Daily Progress    
   February 15, 2016    
   With the understanding that what we learn from history is that we fail to learn from history, let's try to remember that in 1987, the Federal Home Loan Board was conducting an investigation into the Lincoln Savings and Loan's $135 million in unreported ...     
  
   
   Boing Boing    
   January 21, 2016    
   Later, as a corrupt and criminal banker in the 80s, he ran the American Continental Corporation and the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which so exploited the banking deregulations under Reagan that it led to the complete collapse of the Savings ...     
 
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