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...When you were asked whether the money you contributed to the so-called Keating Five -- Senators Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Reigle, John Glenn and John McCain -- influenced them to help you, you said, "I certainly hope...
...When they targeted him, it boomeranged," says Schaefer's former press secretary, Bob Douglas. Some of the N.R.A.'s legislative allies have also been put off by the group's habit of turning upon old friends for a single departure from gospel. Arizona Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini, a longtime N.R.A. supporter, is now targeted in N.R.A. literature because he sponsored one of several bills before Congress that propose to ban assault rifles...
...company, Democrat Cranston has the four other colleagues who with him received a total of nearly $1.4 million from Keating: Democrats John Glenn of Ohio, Donald Riegle of Michigan and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, and Republican John McCain of Arizona. The two other Senators mired in their own scandals are Republicans Dave Durenberger of Minnesota and Alfonse D'Amato of New York...
...normally garrulous financier had kept his mouth shut: the Senators who received a total of $1.3 million in contributions from Keating. The last time he was asked whether the money he gave to California's Alan Cranston, Michigan's Donald Riegle, Ohio's John Glenn and Arizona's Dennis DeConcini and John McCain had persuaded them to intervene with federal regulators on his behalf, Keating baldly declared, "I certainly hope so." Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach, one of the few members of the House Banking Committee who does not accept contributions from political action committees, says that if the allegations...
Keating, the Phoenix businessman who is accused of using Lincoln as a private casino, is emblematic of the nation's $300 billion-plus S & L disaster. But he has no dearth of accomplices. There are the so-called Keating Five -- Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain of Arizona, John Glenn of Ohio, Donald Riegle of Michigan and Alan Cranston of California -- who received $1.3 million in contributions from Keating and went to bat for him against federal regulators. The five sank deeper into trouble last week when the Senate ethics committee appointed outside counsel to investigate. The FBI also expanded...