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- <text id=93TT1582>
- <title>
- May 03, 1993: Bad Day at Jones Day
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- BUSINESS
- Bad Day at Jones Day
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A record payment gets the law firm off the hook in the S&L
- debacle
- </p>
- <p> Among those who helped Charles Keating bring about the 1989
- collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan, lawyers in the Cleveland
- firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue were pivotal. Without
- admitting actual guilt, the gigantic firm has agreed to pay a
- record $51 million to the Resolution Trust Corporation, the
- federal body managing the assets of failed S&Ls. According to
- the RTC, Jones Day attorneys--hired by Keating in 1986--were
- well aware that Keating was practicing financial and legal
- legerdemain to conceal Lincoln's serious problems. Yet Jones Day
- raised no alarm. The resulting failure cost taxpayers at least
- $2.5 billion and led to a prison term for Keating. Jones Day
- contends that Lincoln's demise was not caused by any advice it
- gave Keating.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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