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...ethics committee was faced with such fine questions last week in its plodding probe of five Senators who may have gone too far in their attempt to get federal officials off the back of Charles Keating, a generous contributor to their campaigns. Keating, 66, was released on $300,000 bail last week after spending a month in a California jail awaiting trial on charges that he misled investors in his bankrupt Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose failure will cost taxpayers $2 billion. Ten months into its investigation, the committee is still trying to decide whether at least three Democratic Senators -- Michigan...
Thernstrom, in the story she tells, loses not only a friend, but her notions of justice and retribution. Page eventually beats the murder charge, and is convicted of a lesser charge of manslaughter, free on bail. He still awaits the results of an appeal, while Thernstrom awaits the arrival of a lost friend in her dreams...
...murdered Roberta, Bradley Page, was acquitted of murder, and convicted only on manslaughter charges. How do you feel about the fact that he is now free on bail...
...August 1988 neither regulatory forbearance nor political clout could disguise Silverado's woes: the company announced a $200 million loss. Wise began publicly looking for a buyer to bail out the company. Silverado was insolvent, and Bush glibly announced that he was resigning because his father had been nominated as the Republican presidential candidate. On Oct. 24 the Colorado regulators notified their federal counterparts in Topeka that the hemorrhaging Silverado would be shut down at the end of the month...
...Senators among his powerful buddies. Last week he stood as a wretched symbol of the past decade's financial follies. After the former owner of California's bankrupt Lincoln Savings and Loan was indicted on 42 counts of criminal fraud and was unable to raise the $5 million bail, police handcuffed and jailed him. California alleges that Keating bilked investors who bought $250 million of now virtually worthless junk bonds. The state's charges were the latest in a flood of legal actions against the disgraced businessman. Overall, taxpayers will have to pay more than $2 billion to clean...