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The article formerly said the senators were given $1.3M to their campaigns, whereas the source cited in the article on Charles Keating said they got $300K. I am taking the amount out of this article until a source is cited. Ellsworth 20:44, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
the $300k number appears to be correct, and i've cited a source —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.210.94.219 ( talk) 00:18, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I just read this article. 11/17/05. Two things: i missed the part about keating doing time. He was convicted. The reason , or one of the reasons, Lincoln Savings went down, resulted from Keating transferring funds to an anti-porno organisation which he created, headed, or supported. I hope someone out there can provide the documentation on this. i am tired. wsegen@hotmail.com thanks. 66.81.72.235 19:26, 17 November 2005 (UTC)will segen
Ummmmmm, what the hell is a fhlbb? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skintigh ( talk • contribs) 21:13, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
I am not sure why part of the paragraph keeps getting cut-down. Rkevins82 20:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Looking for secondary sources, I see all these books. [1] SaltyBoatr ( talk) 16:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it appropriate that McCain's name be followed "(the Republican nominee for the 2008 U.S. presidential election)" in this article. While the statement is true it can be found on McCain's own page and doesn't seem relevant to this event, which happened many years prior to the nomination. While this event may be relevant to his nomination, his nomination is not relevant to this event. This sort of descriptor might be necessary if there were some sort of ambiguity: ie there were several senators named John McCain.
Beyond that, the rest of the names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to the ordering of the photos, except for McCain's name which appears first. The only objective argument I can think for this ordering is that there is a value in grouping members of the same party together. If that is the reason it seems to make more sense to list the majority party first. However, alphabetical seems like the better approach. If no-one has a response to this in a few days I'll implement the changes myself. Shnoble ( talk) 23:49, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
This article still has bad weighting problems. Material about the other four really needs to be added, so that it isn't skewed towards being primarily about McCain. (I know, {{sofixit}}, but this one ain't my bag ...) Wasted Time R ( talk) 03:00, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
You need multiple sources, not just one, to sustain blanket statements like "Senators McCain and Glenn were not central figures in the controversy, which could more aptly be called the 'Keating Three'" and "McCain was included in the investigation primarily so that there would be at least one Republican target, and Glenn was swept into the investigation by Republicans angered by the inclusion of McCain." Somehow I think there are other views than Tolchin's out there. Wasted Time R ( talk) 13:41, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Saying this is also known as the "Keating Three" is a unsupportable stretch. A couple of writers may have called it that, but "Keating Five" gets 121,000 google hits, and "Keating Three" gets 500, the vast majority of which are false positives ('Jack brought Jill Keating three apples', that sort of thing). In no real sense was it called the "Keating Three". Whether McCain and Glenn did or did not get a raw deal by being roped in with the other three is a separate issue from what the affair was called. Wasted Time R ( talk) 00:50, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
This edit removed quite a bit of material, on the ground that it's merely "opinion". I've reinserted it, and prefaced it by saying that several accounts of the controversy assert thus-and-such. I think these are the prevailing explanations for why McCain was investigated, and other explanations can be presented too. Ferrylodge ( talk) 03:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Information showing that McCain had an extensive past with Keating should be valid here. An extensive involvement where McCain (a senator) vacationed with Keating in addition to other meetings does give at a minimum a reasonable doubt that there was a real reason for his inclusion in the investigation. Sources showing that he received benefits from Keating must be included here if the previous statements are. Editorials from known conservative talk show hosts (Hannity and Combs) have a clear bias and should not be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.223.34.162 ( talk) 02:50, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Hannity and Colmes is not a conservative talk show, it is a split-view talk show a la Crossfire. Hannity is the conservative, Colmes is the liberal. They split introductions, comments, questions, etc. Thus, no "clear bias" as O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh would clearly have. However, editorials of any sort probably have no place in this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.100.227.72 ( talk) 19:00, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
In the current political environment stating that Glen was included only as a result of McCain does not even the score politically. This feels very much like a quid pro quo attempt to seem unbiased that is meaningless since Glen has no political importance today and McCain is the most important Republican figure in the current elections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.223.34.162 ( talk) 02:54, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to make a slight change, so maybe it's not necessary to include this note at the talk page. The article says in the last section that McCain "had an unexpectedly easy time gaining re-election in 1992." This raises the question: unexpected by whom, and why? Unexpected by us, given the lousy things he did during the Keating affair? The answers are provided by the cited source: "some thought McCain was in trouble and not just because of Keating." Bush was dropping in the national polls against Clinton, and Mecham was drawing votes from McCain, and there was the Keating matter. Moreover, the reason why McCain had such an easy time getting reelected included that the Persian Gulf War broke out, which had nothing to do with Keating (McCain was in demand on talk shows to gab about the war). The cited source also says: "The tough re-election fight McCain dreaded never panned out. 'The pictures of me cavorting on a Bahamian beach with Charlie that I had anticipated seeing in Arizona newspapers never made an appearance in the campaign....'" Anyway, I'll change it to McCain "had an easier time gaining re-election in 1992 than he anticipated." Ferrylodge ( talk) 14:06, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
This article is lacking in details of what actually happened between Keating and the senators, and what actually they were under later ethical investigation for. The "Corruption allegations" just has one sentence (the first) pertinent to this. Then later in the "Peripheral role of Glenn and McCain" section, we have one paragraph (the third) on this, but it unfortunately mixes what all five did (material that's thus in the wrong section) with explanations of why two of them didn't do as much. Much more is needed, and it needs to be in the "Corruption allegations" section. Wasted Time R ( talk) 00:05, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I did some work towards this. Mostly, I just shuffled material around, so that I got all relevant material in "Corruption allegations". I also added some bits about the two famous April 1987 meetings, but much more needs to be done. I also reorg'd the "Conclusion of investigation" section, as I thought it would be fairest if each senator's 'verdict' were given in a different subsection, as all were somewhat different. Obviously some of those subsections need expansion. Wasted Time R ( talk) 04:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
(Just as a follow-up, I did a lot of expansion of many parts of the article, subsequent to this.) Wasted Time R ( talk) 12:37, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
User:72.223.34.162 added this, in reference to the 'McCain and Glenn were peripheral figures' section:
This is possible valid argument, but belongs in here in discussions about the article, not in the article itself. Wasted Time R ( talk) 02:50, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Why is it necessary to include material twice? I've tried to remove the redundancy, but keep getting reverted. Ferrylodge ( talk) 23:30, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Has anyone ever found the full text of the Senate Ethics Committee report online anywhere? So far, all we have are these minimal excerpts via NYT. Straight Google doesn't find the full report using any expressions within the excerpt, e.g. this search. The Ethics Committee website doesn't go back before 2001. The GPO Access site doesn't go back before 1995. It would have to be tucked away in some other database ... or maybe it was never put online at all, and is only available in print at libraries that carry the congressional documents service. Wasted Time R ( talk) 13:30, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there any evidence that he is in fact a Democrat? [10:59, September 16, 2008 67.189.82.47]
With the recent headlines, this thing will be a political hotspot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.222.150 ( talk) 06:46, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
On October 6, 2008 the campaign of Barack Obama released a documentary attempting to tie John McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal to the current subprime mortgage crisis. This is a major development with respect to this article because it ties together two major current events (namely the 2008 political campaign and the 2008 financial crisis). Evidence of the relevance to the current campaign is demonstrated by the number of edits to this article in 2008 (nearly 500) compared to previous years (average of 10 per year). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Surgderm ( talk • contribs) 06:53, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Poor English [07:09, October 6, 2008 Ret.Prof]
What would be needed to get this to article of the day status? -- Plkrtn ( talk) 08:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Source citations that are not viewable over the internet should be avoided. I'm not a moderator this is just my personal opinion since this is likely going to be an important issue.-- 74.46.223.68 ( talk) 10:46, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
These allegations in regard to the S&L scandal of early 1990's are entirely fraudulent and grossly and unfairly misleading in this fashion. If you understand, at all, accounting then you understand that Many / Most ? S&Ls declared bankrupt by the US Government at this time were NOT AT ALL. The mark to market rule required writing down their assets, and that marking down was caused most particularly by high interest rates caused by the US Federal Reserve Bank. This dual US Government role in causing such a write down which then afterwards would result in the S&L being declared as insolvment, is in actual fact then an accounting result having ZERO fraud at all involved by the S&L banks, officers, executives. Indead, instead, it could be ACCURATELY declared, entirely, a fraud by the S&L regulators. Entirely then,contrived.
Worse, the fact that such S&Ls declared then insolvent, when they were not, were then sold to cronies at massively undervalued values, amounted in effect to gifts of billions to those cronies. And all this being based on supposedly mortgages marked to market and so marked down in value, when in fact the mortgages were all good and paid off on time.
The same mark to market rule has presently (2008) caused widespread havoc across US Wall Street and banks again; and note the SEC has stated and proposed changing that rule to have its effect muted entirely with a "clarification" of that rule to allow judgment to not mark down to market such assets as those that are paying on time , etc.
Then, all that shows clearly , in addition to the finding at the time, that Sen McCain, was only minimally and innocently involved, it all shows clearly that the Obama campaign is using this theme entirely fraudulently to smear McCain, unfairly and in fact, fraudulently.
/s/ Tyroan Obinga Jr 76.192.7.118 ( talk) 07:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
The Dayton Daily News was the first newspaper to report in detail on both the April 2 and April 7 meetings with a front page Sunday article on May 21, 1989. The story, written by John Dougherty, was later cited by Ed Gray in his Nov. 27, 1990 testimony before the Senate Ethics Committee (page 126 of the committee transcript). "Are you telling us if this reporter had not happened to call you, that this letter would not have been sent out and maybe we would not be here," Senate Ethics Committee special counsel Robert S. Bennett asked Gray. "That is probably right, unless some other reporter had called later and asked the same question and decided to write the story. Absolutely." /s/ RastaBear —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rastabear ( talk • contribs) 04:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
THERE ARE OTHER FACTS THAT THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN WOULD RATHER NOT TALK ABOUT REGARDING THE KEATING FIVE.
1, SENATOR McCAIN WAS EXONERATED IN THIS MATTER.
2, THE OTHER 4 MEMBERS OF THE KEATING FIVE WERE DEMOCRATS. —Preceding
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The article formerly said the senators were given $1.3M to their campaigns, whereas the source cited in the article on Charles Keating said they got $300K. I am taking the amount out of this article until a source is cited. Ellsworth 20:44, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
the $300k number appears to be correct, and i've cited a source —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.210.94.219 ( talk) 00:18, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I just read this article. 11/17/05. Two things: i missed the part about keating doing time. He was convicted. The reason , or one of the reasons, Lincoln Savings went down, resulted from Keating transferring funds to an anti-porno organisation which he created, headed, or supported. I hope someone out there can provide the documentation on this. i am tired. wsegen@hotmail.com thanks. 66.81.72.235 19:26, 17 November 2005 (UTC)will segen
Ummmmmm, what the hell is a fhlbb? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skintigh ( talk • contribs) 21:13, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
I am not sure why part of the paragraph keeps getting cut-down. Rkevins82 20:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Looking for secondary sources, I see all these books. [1] SaltyBoatr ( talk) 16:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it appropriate that McCain's name be followed "(the Republican nominee for the 2008 U.S. presidential election)" in this article. While the statement is true it can be found on McCain's own page and doesn't seem relevant to this event, which happened many years prior to the nomination. While this event may be relevant to his nomination, his nomination is not relevant to this event. This sort of descriptor might be necessary if there were some sort of ambiguity: ie there were several senators named John McCain.
Beyond that, the rest of the names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to the ordering of the photos, except for McCain's name which appears first. The only objective argument I can think for this ordering is that there is a value in grouping members of the same party together. If that is the reason it seems to make more sense to list the majority party first. However, alphabetical seems like the better approach. If no-one has a response to this in a few days I'll implement the changes myself. Shnoble ( talk) 23:49, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
This article still has bad weighting problems. Material about the other four really needs to be added, so that it isn't skewed towards being primarily about McCain. (I know, {{sofixit}}, but this one ain't my bag ...) Wasted Time R ( talk) 03:00, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
You need multiple sources, not just one, to sustain blanket statements like "Senators McCain and Glenn were not central figures in the controversy, which could more aptly be called the 'Keating Three'" and "McCain was included in the investigation primarily so that there would be at least one Republican target, and Glenn was swept into the investigation by Republicans angered by the inclusion of McCain." Somehow I think there are other views than Tolchin's out there. Wasted Time R ( talk) 13:41, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Saying this is also known as the "Keating Three" is a unsupportable stretch. A couple of writers may have called it that, but "Keating Five" gets 121,000 google hits, and "Keating Three" gets 500, the vast majority of which are false positives ('Jack brought Jill Keating three apples', that sort of thing). In no real sense was it called the "Keating Three". Whether McCain and Glenn did or did not get a raw deal by being roped in with the other three is a separate issue from what the affair was called. Wasted Time R ( talk) 00:50, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
This edit removed quite a bit of material, on the ground that it's merely "opinion". I've reinserted it, and prefaced it by saying that several accounts of the controversy assert thus-and-such. I think these are the prevailing explanations for why McCain was investigated, and other explanations can be presented too. Ferrylodge ( talk) 03:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Information showing that McCain had an extensive past with Keating should be valid here. An extensive involvement where McCain (a senator) vacationed with Keating in addition to other meetings does give at a minimum a reasonable doubt that there was a real reason for his inclusion in the investigation. Sources showing that he received benefits from Keating must be included here if the previous statements are. Editorials from known conservative talk show hosts (Hannity and Combs) have a clear bias and should not be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.223.34.162 ( talk) 02:50, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Hannity and Colmes is not a conservative talk show, it is a split-view talk show a la Crossfire. Hannity is the conservative, Colmes is the liberal. They split introductions, comments, questions, etc. Thus, no "clear bias" as O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh would clearly have. However, editorials of any sort probably have no place in this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.100.227.72 ( talk) 19:00, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
In the current political environment stating that Glen was included only as a result of McCain does not even the score politically. This feels very much like a quid pro quo attempt to seem unbiased that is meaningless since Glen has no political importance today and McCain is the most important Republican figure in the current elections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.223.34.162 ( talk) 02:54, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to make a slight change, so maybe it's not necessary to include this note at the talk page. The article says in the last section that McCain "had an unexpectedly easy time gaining re-election in 1992." This raises the question: unexpected by whom, and why? Unexpected by us, given the lousy things he did during the Keating affair? The answers are provided by the cited source: "some thought McCain was in trouble and not just because of Keating." Bush was dropping in the national polls against Clinton, and Mecham was drawing votes from McCain, and there was the Keating matter. Moreover, the reason why McCain had such an easy time getting reelected included that the Persian Gulf War broke out, which had nothing to do with Keating (McCain was in demand on talk shows to gab about the war). The cited source also says: "The tough re-election fight McCain dreaded never panned out. 'The pictures of me cavorting on a Bahamian beach with Charlie that I had anticipated seeing in Arizona newspapers never made an appearance in the campaign....'" Anyway, I'll change it to McCain "had an easier time gaining re-election in 1992 than he anticipated." Ferrylodge ( talk) 14:06, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
This article is lacking in details of what actually happened between Keating and the senators, and what actually they were under later ethical investigation for. The "Corruption allegations" just has one sentence (the first) pertinent to this. Then later in the "Peripheral role of Glenn and McCain" section, we have one paragraph (the third) on this, but it unfortunately mixes what all five did (material that's thus in the wrong section) with explanations of why two of them didn't do as much. Much more is needed, and it needs to be in the "Corruption allegations" section. Wasted Time R ( talk) 00:05, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I did some work towards this. Mostly, I just shuffled material around, so that I got all relevant material in "Corruption allegations". I also added some bits about the two famous April 1987 meetings, but much more needs to be done. I also reorg'd the "Conclusion of investigation" section, as I thought it would be fairest if each senator's 'verdict' were given in a different subsection, as all were somewhat different. Obviously some of those subsections need expansion. Wasted Time R ( talk) 04:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
(Just as a follow-up, I did a lot of expansion of many parts of the article, subsequent to this.) Wasted Time R ( talk) 12:37, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
User:72.223.34.162 added this, in reference to the 'McCain and Glenn were peripheral figures' section:
This is possible valid argument, but belongs in here in discussions about the article, not in the article itself. Wasted Time R ( talk) 02:50, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Why is it necessary to include material twice? I've tried to remove the redundancy, but keep getting reverted. Ferrylodge ( talk) 23:30, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Has anyone ever found the full text of the Senate Ethics Committee report online anywhere? So far, all we have are these minimal excerpts via NYT. Straight Google doesn't find the full report using any expressions within the excerpt, e.g. this search. The Ethics Committee website doesn't go back before 2001. The GPO Access site doesn't go back before 1995. It would have to be tucked away in some other database ... or maybe it was never put online at all, and is only available in print at libraries that carry the congressional documents service. Wasted Time R ( talk) 13:30, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there any evidence that he is in fact a Democrat? [10:59, September 16, 2008 67.189.82.47]
With the recent headlines, this thing will be a political hotspot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.222.150 ( talk) 06:46, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
On October 6, 2008 the campaign of Barack Obama released a documentary attempting to tie John McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal to the current subprime mortgage crisis. This is a major development with respect to this article because it ties together two major current events (namely the 2008 political campaign and the 2008 financial crisis). Evidence of the relevance to the current campaign is demonstrated by the number of edits to this article in 2008 (nearly 500) compared to previous years (average of 10 per year). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Surgderm ( talk • contribs) 06:53, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Poor English [07:09, October 6, 2008 Ret.Prof]
What would be needed to get this to article of the day status? -- Plkrtn ( talk) 08:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Source citations that are not viewable over the internet should be avoided. I'm not a moderator this is just my personal opinion since this is likely going to be an important issue.-- 74.46.223.68 ( talk) 10:46, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
These allegations in regard to the S&L scandal of early 1990's are entirely fraudulent and grossly and unfairly misleading in this fashion. If you understand, at all, accounting then you understand that Many / Most ? S&Ls declared bankrupt by the US Government at this time were NOT AT ALL. The mark to market rule required writing down their assets, and that marking down was caused most particularly by high interest rates caused by the US Federal Reserve Bank. This dual US Government role in causing such a write down which then afterwards would result in the S&L being declared as insolvment, is in actual fact then an accounting result having ZERO fraud at all involved by the S&L banks, officers, executives. Indead, instead, it could be ACCURATELY declared, entirely, a fraud by the S&L regulators. Entirely then,contrived.
Worse, the fact that such S&Ls declared then insolvent, when they were not, were then sold to cronies at massively undervalued values, amounted in effect to gifts of billions to those cronies. And all this being based on supposedly mortgages marked to market and so marked down in value, when in fact the mortgages were all good and paid off on time.
The same mark to market rule has presently (2008) caused widespread havoc across US Wall Street and banks again; and note the SEC has stated and proposed changing that rule to have its effect muted entirely with a "clarification" of that rule to allow judgment to not mark down to market such assets as those that are paying on time , etc.
Then, all that shows clearly , in addition to the finding at the time, that Sen McCain, was only minimally and innocently involved, it all shows clearly that the Obama campaign is using this theme entirely fraudulently to smear McCain, unfairly and in fact, fraudulently.
/s/ Tyroan Obinga Jr 76.192.7.118 ( talk) 07:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
The Dayton Daily News was the first newspaper to report in detail on both the April 2 and April 7 meetings with a front page Sunday article on May 21, 1989. The story, written by John Dougherty, was later cited by Ed Gray in his Nov. 27, 1990 testimony before the Senate Ethics Committee (page 126 of the committee transcript). "Are you telling us if this reporter had not happened to call you, that this letter would not have been sent out and maybe we would not be here," Senate Ethics Committee special counsel Robert S. Bennett asked Gray. "That is probably right, unless some other reporter had called later and asked the same question and decided to write the story. Absolutely." /s/ RastaBear —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rastabear ( talk • contribs) 04:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
THERE ARE OTHER FACTS THAT THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN WOULD RATHER NOT TALK ABOUT REGARDING THE KEATING FIVE.
1, SENATOR McCAIN WAS EXONERATED IN THIS MATTER.
2, THE OTHER 4 MEMBERS OF THE KEATING FIVE WERE DEMOCRATS. —Preceding
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