The Democrats and the making of a financial crisis.
''I found nothing in my investigation which caused me to question Senator McCain's integrity,'' said Robert Bennett, the Washington lawyer who was special counsel to the ethics panel during what is called the Keating Five investigation. Mr. Bennett, more recently, has been one of President Clinton's lawyers.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E7D9123CF932A15752C1A96F958260
The ethics committee's investigation focused on five senators: Alan Cranston (D-CA); Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ); John Glenn (D-OH); John McCain (R-AZ); and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI). (Note: four of the five are Democrats. Cranston, DeConcini and Riegle were found by the Ethics Panel to have engaged in conduct that constituted substantial inteference with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board's enforcement efforts involving Charles Keating's Lincoln Federal, and that they did so at the behest of Keating. Glenn and McCain were essentially exonerated. Glenn was re-elected and served one more term in the senate until he retired in 1999. John McCain has served nearly 18 more years in the senate to date, and led campaign finance reform efforts.)
http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Keating_Five
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