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After 22 months of shilly-shallying, partisan bickering and overblown rhetoric, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics finally punished the last of the Keating Five. Last week the committee reprimanded California Democrat Alan Cranston, who accepted $850,000 in contributions from financier Charles Keating while interceding on his behalf with bank regulators who were trying to seize Keating's failing savings and loan...
Hours after Boren made his announcement, Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) said in a statement issued by his office last night he would also vote for Gates...
...three familiar senatorial faces pop up on their screens above the words WHO WILL JUDGE THE JUDGE? The follow-up question -- "How many of these liberal Democrats could themselves pass ethical scrutiny?" -- was hardly necessary, since the faces were those of Edward Kennedy, Joseph Biden and Alan Cranston, all scarred veterans of highly publicized scandals, from Chappaquiddick to plagiarized speeches to the Keating Five...
...justice. In February the committee closed the books on four of the five Senators accused of intervening with federal regulators on behalf of failed S&L boss and campaign contributor Charles Keating Jr. However, the members continued to dither over what to do about the fifth Senator, Democrat Alan Cranston of California, who allegedly got $984,000 in Keating campaign gifts for helping with the Feds. Last week, angered at the slow pace of the 18-month probe, North Carolina's Republican Senator Jesse Helms released a 247-page report on the Keating Five based on a draft...
...described the evening as "upbeat and happy," it was in reality a melancholy event. Clifford, who became a latter-day banker, is now embroiled in controversy over his ties to a foreign bank convicted of money laundering. Nor was that the only cloud hovering over this Democratic Olympus. Alan Cranston, criticized by the Senate ethics committee for his shady dealings in the savings and loan scandal, showed up at the book party. So did Ted Kennedy, wrapped in the shadow of the Palm Beach sex scandal...