Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. » Keating Five http://minnesotaindependent.com News. Politics. Media. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:39:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Obama campaign releases 13-minute mini-doc on McCain’s part in the Keating Five scandal http://minnesotaindependent.com/11897/obama-campaign-releases-13-minute-mini-doc-on-mccains-part-in-the-keating-five-scandal http://minnesotaindependent.com/11897/obama-campaign-releases-13-minute-mini-doc-on-mccains-part-in-the-keating-five-scandal#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:00:14 +0000 Steve Perry http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=11897 Everyone wondered whether, and how, John McCain’s charter membership in the “Keating Five” — a group of congressmen implicated in trying to foil government inquiries into Savings & Loan baron Charles Keating’s corner of the 1980s S&L scandals — would find its way into the 2008 campaign.

Wall Street answered that question for us. Now Team Obama is promoting this short documentary on the subject. There are some sound dropouts in this version of the vid; corrected version is here.

Barack Obama: “Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis” (13:26)

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