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Slate Magazine - Is John McCain a Crook?
slate.com — I say yes after reading this article. It's all about how John McCain and his 4 pals in Congress attempted to strong-arm federal regulators into giving their campaign buddy Charlie Keating a pass after mis-handling his investors' (the good citizens of California) funds to the tune of $3.4 million. U.S. taxpayers bail out Charlie's bank (Lincoln).
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- keating5, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2My Bad, I meant to write, "3.4 Billion" was the final taxpayer cost.
- garnuth, on 07/06/2008, -1/+1McCain also has a gambling problem. There is an article just out in TIME about the situation.
- Ridgeliner7, on 07/06/2008, -2/+1
Buried as inaccurate, as this wasn't some article from Slate, but some idiot posting a comment to their story.
HERE IS WHAT THE SUBMITTER DIDN'T INCLUDE:
"The Senate Ethics Committee probe of the Keating Five began in November 1990, and committee Special Counsel Robert Bennett recommended that McCain and John Glenn be dropped from the investigation. They were not. McCain believes Democrats on the committee blocked Bennett's recommendation because he was the lone Keating Five Republican, ALL THE REST WERE DEMOCRATS.
In February 1991, the Senate Ethics Committee found John McCain and John Glenn to be the least blameworthy of the five senators. (McCain and Glenn attended the meetings but did nothing else to influence the regulators.) McCain was guilty of nothing more than "poor judgment," the committee said, and declared his actions were not "improper nor attended with gross negligence." McCain considered the committee's judgment to be "full exoneration," and he contributed $112,000 (the amount raised for him by Keating) to the U.S. Treasury. - MorganMghee, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0Here's a peek at the Senators hometown newspaper on the subject http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/arti ...
- MorganMghee, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0Add this to the similar intimidation attempts used on the FCC regarding Paxon Communications (trying to become PAX tv, now ION television) http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022308C.shtml, and it's all a bit too much for me to believe they were all honest mistakes. He doesn't get to have it both ways, he's not an edgy angry know it all AND a simple not sure how things are done guy. He IS a say anything to get a vote kind of guy however.
- greevar, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Is John McCain a crook? In a word? Yes.
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