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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
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 39
American Notes
SCANDALS
Unhappy Birthday to You
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<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.
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<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.
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