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...some veterans of Arizona politics paint a more complicated picture of McCain than as just a crusader against corruption. They talk of bullying and intimidation, of meetings when he banged the table so hard they feared it would split. In one case, recalls former Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini, when he refused to fire an aide who had annoyed McCain, "to put it politely, he told me that I could go do something with myself." DeConcini, a Democrat, says that "in my eight years with him, I learned that John just hates it when you disagree with him. If you press...
...company, five Senators came calling at the FHLBB, requesting that the charges against Lincoln not be pursued, on the basis that the S&L was a major employer in their states. These Senators - McCain , John Glenn (D-OH), Alan Cranston (D-CA), Donald Riegle (D-MI) and Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) - had little in common. Most of them came from different states and different parts of the political spectrum. One of the only elements that linked the men together was Charles Keating. The banker had been a major contributor to each of their campaigns, donating close to $1.4 million dollars...
...Keating himself was convicted on 73 counts of fraud in 1993 and served 4 years in prison. Though the Keating Five emerged from the scandal legally unscathed - only Cranston received a formal reprimand - the political consequences have had more lasting effects. Cranston left office, while both Riegle and DeConcini opted out of running for re-election. McCain, for his part, has referred to his involvement in the affair as "the worst mistake of my life...
...remains to be seen whether these raids will be enough to heighten the risk of doing business with cheap undocumented workers against the risk of being caught. It is going to be ineffective in curbing undocumented immigration, says Christina DeConcini, director of policy for the National Immigration Forum, a group advocating for comprehensive reform and a path to citizenship for undocumented workers. "The need for people to fill these jobs is very strong...
Ultrasensitive messages, like those used by the White House Secret Service detail, are scrambled and cannot be decoded without sophisticated equipment. But unscrambled transmissions from most agencies are vulnerable to eavesdroppers using commercially available radio scanners. DeConcini wants Congress to fatten the budget for secure communications. The Government was reminded of the embarrassing problem of intercepted radio messages during the Achille Lauro episode in October, when ham-radio operators heard Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger advising the President over an unsecured channel. NEW JERSEY A Corrupt Pol Surfaces...