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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…

Obama’s Keating Attack Goes Live

By | 10.06.08 | 1:25 pm

We’ll do it live, as they say.

The Obama campaign is aggressively pushing its new video attacking Sen. John McCain on the Keating Five. Campaign spokesman Bill Burton blasted reporters with a terse, dramatic note this afternoon: “Keating-McCain documentary is now live.”