Keating

McCain Pushed for Land Deal for Keating Associate

According to McClatchy, six years after the Keating Five scandal, Sen. John McCain pressured U.S. Forest Service employees to approve a potentially lucrative land swap that would have benefited some big donors — including a former associate of Charles Keating Jr.

Keating Connection: The Sequel

Even after McCain broke off his relationship with Charles Keating, his wife maintained a partnership with the disgraced financier in a real-estate development that netted her tax benefits and a profit.

McCain Helped Keating Friend in ‘05

When the Latch School, an Arizona special education institution, asked Sen. John McCain in 2003 to help it secure a $288,000 grant from the Federal Communications Commission — after the school’s request was denied in 2002 — his office didn’t appear to do much.
In 2005, the school made another plea for help to McCain, and [...]

McCain Ad: Obama’s a ‘Hypocritical’ Liar

In its newest TV ad, titled “Hypo,” the McCain campaign labels Sen. Barack Obama a “hypocritical” liar.
I’ll pause a moment to allow the irony — some might call it hypocrisy — of that sentence to sink in.