How Did McCain Avoid Prison After Being Caught Taking Bribes From Charles Keating?

Notorious crooks John McCain and Charles Keating partying at Keating's Bahamas estate

McCain has worked very hard for many years to whitewash his involvement in the Keating Five Scandal. I heard some Republican talking heads on Fox the other day screaming hysterically when someone brought it up: "he was cleared, he was cleared, he was cleared." Yet the people involved with the real investigation-- not the Senate Ethics Committee whitewash (which didn't "clear" McCain either but rebuked him for the same kind of bad judgment that is the absolute hallmark of his entire career, both military and political) have all claimed that not only was McCain guilty but that he was the most guilty and the only one who committed a crime-- accepting bribes-- that should have ended his career and sent him to prison.

McCain and the lipsticked pitbull want to talk about some idiotic terrorist who Obama barely knew and who committed a crime when Obama was 8 years old? Why doesn't the media, who have been very much part of the Keating Five whitewash for McCain, take a closer look at that and see what it was really all about instead of parroting Palin's baseless smear of Obama?

And the Obama campaign has made it easier for them today-- launching a new McCain-Keating website, along with all the relevant-- and still shocking-- research, and an easy to digest 13 minute film (below).

This all happen almost two decades ago and I wonder how many DWT readers recall when McCain was caught red-handed taking bribes from the worst bankrobber and swindler in American history, a close family friend, introduced to McCain by his jailbird, Mafiosa father-in-law. It is difficult to understand McCain's (and the GOP's) role in the current Wall Street meltdown without understanding McCain's role in the S&L and the Keating Five scandals.