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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...
Riegle. While claiming a foggy memory on how the meeting with Gray came about, Riegle insisted that he had been invited by DeConcini. Bennett said the facts were otherwise: it was Riegle who first approached Gray about a meeting. He did so after visiting the American Continental offices in Phoenix, where employees donated $11,000 to his campaign at Keating's urging...
...DeConcini. He was described as almost slavishly responsive to every request from Lincoln's boss, including joining the drive to get Gray fired and a Keating crony appointed to the bank board. He was Keating's main spokesman at both meetings with the other Senators and was the one who presented Keating's compromise offer to the examiners. He also telephoned a California state official to intercede on Lincoln's behalf. Asked Bennett: "Why is a U.S. Senator calling a state regulator...
...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...