The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S & L Industry (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)

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by William K Black

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The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S & L Industry (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)

by William K Black

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ISBN10 0292721390
ISBN13 9780292721395
Publish Date 1 April 2005
Publish Status Out of Print
Out of Print 15 August 2014
Publish Country US
Imprint University of Texas Press

Format Paperback (US Trade)
Pages 351
Language English

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I vaguely remember the S&< crisis of the 80's. The Keating 5 were, Alan Cranston (D-Calif), Dennis CeConcini (D-Ariz), John Glenn (D-Ohio), John McCain (R-Ariz) and Donal W. Riegle (D-Mich.) were accused of covering for Charles Keating, Chairman of the Lincoln Saving and Loan Association when the Federal Home Loan Bank Board tried to investigate the S&<. Today, all I remember is that that criminal John McCain is still in office.

William Black was a bank regulator at the time and a central figure in exposing the congressional corruption, his insights on the scandal and those that perpetuated it was very interesting, although some of it was out of my depth. This review was originally posted on THE PFAEFFLE JOURNAL