# Charles Keating Has Died **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202 "2014-04-02T22:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202/1 "2014-04-02T22:37:52Z")
For those you too young to remember, Keating was not only anti-porn crusader, he bribed five US Senators (among them, John McCain) to reduce scrutiny on his savings & loan business, Lincoln Savings. This in turn cost the American taxpayer $5 billion. For his sins, he received a 10 year sentence, a 12 1/2 year sentence and was going to receive much more. However thanks to the vagaries of the US legal system, Keating only served 4 1/2 years for essentially stealing $5 billion. He will be missed….😉 > **[Charles Keating, 90, Key Figure in ’80s Savings and Loan Crisis, Dies...](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/business/charles-keating-key-figure-in-the-1980s-savings-and-loan-crisis-dies-at-90.html?_r=0)** > > Mr. Keating was a businessman who later went to prison after fleecing thousands of depositors with help from a group of United States senators dubbed the Keating Five. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202/2 "2014-04-02T23:06:58Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > He will be missed….😉 You need to hire a better sniper. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202/3 "2014-04-03T00:20:28Z")
Whew! It’s the wrong (right?) Charles Keating. During the period of the financier’s trial and conviction, I was a fan of British actor Charles Keating, and occasionally confused by headlines. And I’m not the only one – I see that someone has vandalized the actor’s Wikipedia page by announcing his death today. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202/4 "2014-04-03T01:00:00Z")
Good. Fuck that shitbag. All the welfare queens in all of America’s history don’t come close to what that cocksucking motherfucker cost us all. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202/5 "2014-04-03T01:28:51Z")
Seems almost quaint now, guys actually going to prison for gaming the system, causing financial collapse and whatnot. Ol’ Chuck was born a little too early. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202/6 "2014-04-03T01:50:32Z")
Had he simply waited a few years he could taken part in the housing bubble and never spent a day in prison. I guess that everything in life really **IS** timing… ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202/7 "2014-04-03T16:10:08Z")
I must have been hiding in a cave … I never heard of him till now. My God 5 billion dollars! … and I thought the recent news of one billion dollars for embassy art work was bad. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202/8 "2014-04-03T16:30:23Z")
I remember Mr. Cheating. The world is a better place without that vile excreasence on it. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-keating-has-died/685202/9 "2014-04-03T17:07:48Z")
I remember hearing radio advertisements about uber-Christian topics like “The miracle of Fatima” in the mid-eighties. I couldn’t fathom why he was running these ads, and what he expected to accomplish with them. I guess he just needed something to spend other people’s money on…