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Attorney: Keating Five Demonstrated McCain’s Integrity

By | 10.06.08 | 3:00 pm

The McCain campaign today brought out the big guns to “set the record straight” about Sen. John McCain’s ties to Charles Keating, a central figure in the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

On a McCain campaign-organized conference call with reporters, high-powered Washington lawyer and More…

Wrong From the Beginning

By | 10.06.08 | 2:35 pm

Sen. Obama’s latest campaign video, “Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis,” features William Black, the former deputy director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, who attended a meeting, in April 1987, of McCain, four other senators and Black’s boss at the time, Edwin Gray. More…