Word: deconcini
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...five. He implied that the actions of Arizona Republican John McCain and Ohio Democrat John Glenn were not serious enough to warrant punishment. He portrayed Michigan Democrat Donald Riegle as deceptive and suspiciously forgetful. He laid the heaviest blame on California Democrat Alan Cranston and Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini. Cranston, who will undergo cancer treatments this week, has announced that he will not seek re-election. Still, Bennett did not spare any of the five in his six-hour summation...
...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's Donald Riegle, California's Alan Cranston and Arizona's Dennis DeConcini -- should be punished by the Senate. A battle of leaked documents was launched last week by insiders hoping to influence the decision...
According to one such document, Roger F. Martin, a former member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S&Ls, told Senate investigators that Cranston called him at home late one night last spring and that DeConcini reached him the same way at 5:30 the next morning. Both had urged that Lincoln Savings be sold to an interested buyer rather than be shut down. Martin told the probers, "I have never, either before or since this incident, received a telephone call at home from any Senator or Representative regarding a board matter...
...Senate ethics committee heeds its lawyer's recommendation that Democratic Senator John Glenn of Ohio and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona be cleared, for insufficient evidence, of accusations that they granted improper favors to former S&L owner Charles H. Keating Jr. That would leave Arizona's Dennis DeConcini, Michigan's Donald Riegle and California's Alan Cranston, all Democratic Senators. Keating and his associates contributed $1.4 million to the five men, who intervened on his behalf with federal regulators. The committee, which has heard from Glenn, McCain and DeConcini, is expected to vote this week on whether...
...strike would have to include his resignation. "What Durenberger did was all calculated, not something he fell into," says one political consultant. "How could the Senate sweep it under the rug?" The rug is already bulging with scandals: ethics investigations are proceeding against Senators Alan Cranston, John McCain, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Riegle and John Glenn for their ties to savings and loan operator Charles Keating; and New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato is under scrutiny for handing out federal housing grants to some campaign contributors...