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Obama Ad Questions McCain's Judgment, Values in 'Keating 5' Ethics Scandal



By Ron Gerber
06 October 2008 @ 11:59 am ET


Keating
In a Nov. 20, 1990 file photo Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, sits with his attorney John Dowd during a Senate Ethics Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. In his early days as a freshman senator, McCain was known for accepting contributions from Charles Keating Jr., flying to the banker`s home in the Bahamas on company planes and taking up Keating`s cause with U.S. financial regulators as they investigated him. (AP Photo/John Duricka... (AP Photo / John Duricka)
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Ultimately, Lincoln collapsed, costing taxpayers $2.6 billion. Keating was released after four years before his sentence was overturned on a technicality.

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