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- <text id=91TT2779>
- <title>
- Dec. 16, 1991: American Notes:Scandals
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 39
- American Notes
- SCANDALS
- Unhappy Birthday to You
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Financier Charles Keating's 68th birthday was not an occasion
- for celebration. Instead, a state-court jury in Los Angeles
- found the former head of California's Lincoln Savings & Loan,
- whose company sold $250 million in junk bonds to unwitting
- investors as it headed toward insolvency, guilty of 17 counts
- of securities fraud. Keating, whose $1.4 million in political
- contributions entangled five U.S. Senators in the S&L scandal,
- faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Last month the
- Senate reprimanded California Senator Alan Cranston for
- soliciting contributions from Keating while he was urging
- federal regulators to go easy on Keating's S&L.
- </p>
- <p> Other troubles await Keating. He is the subject of a
- federal grand-jury probe of securities violations, a
- racketeering suit by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation
- and a civil suit by former Lincoln investors. His next birthday
- could find him back in court--or behind bars.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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