Charles Keating

Keating was admitted to the U. The web of transactions involving the company and its subsidiaries was large and complex and one stock analyst later said in 1977 that he had "never come across a company that has so much strange paper on its books. I come into the office with this hollow feeling in my stomach lots of time.

senators to argue for preferential treatment from the regulators led to them being dubbed the Keating Five. Keating was a champion swimmer for the University of Cincinnati in the 1940s. When Lincoln failed in 1989 it cost the federal government over $3 billion and about 23000 customers were left with worthless bonds.