Cindy McCain Kept Keating Partnership After Scandal

Washington Independent:

Sen. John McCain's wife and father-in-law continued a lucrative business partnership with disgraced financier Charles H. Keating Jr. for 11 years after the GOP presidential nominee said he ended his close friendship with Keating in March 1987.

Cindy McCain's business partnership with Keating in a real-estate development between 1986 and 1998 netted her a tidy profit, in addition to years of significant tax benefits. Her father, who died in 2000, earned similar returns.

Read the whole story: Washington Independent

Comments

[AlaskasRevenge]

Even Cindy McCain's half sister knows a MONEY HUNGRY ELITEST when she sees one.

She's voting for OBAMA!

Here's the scoop:

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/cindy_mccains_halfsister_barac.html

[mrJJ]

McCain & Business Partner Make PROFITABLE Land Deal-$250,000 Property Earns $18 Million In 2 Years

McCain helped businessman buy Fort Ord land for a fraction of its market value
JULIA REYNOLDS - MediaNews
Article Launched: 10/12/2008 01:32:02 AM PDT

MONTEREY -- An Arizona businessman, with help from Sen. John McCain's office, paid the federal government a mere fraction of the market value when he bought a Fort Ord land parcel in 1999, an Army appraisal obtained by The Monterey Herald shows.

Donald R. Diamond, an 80-year-old real estate developer, lobbyist and top fundraiser for McCain's presidential campaign, bought the land for $250,000, though it was valued at $7.2 million, according to Pentagon appraisals made three years before the sale.

He held on to the parcel for a little more than two years before selling it and the buildings on it for an estimated profit of more than $18 million.

more at:
http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_10703310

[mrJJ]

Charlie Keatings love note to John McCain

In 1986 John McCain wrote a political note — on official House of Representatives stationary — apologizing to Charles H. Keating Jr. for his campaign having listed his good friend and supporter as part of McCain's Senate campaign finance committee.
Keating responded with a handwritten note — addressed to "senator," seven months before McCain won his Senate seat — telling him not to sweat it, "I'm yours till death do us part."
The back-and-forth came when McCain was still in the House but seeking a Senate seat, and the year before he and a handful of other senators met with banking regulators on behalf of Keating.
McCain wrote: "As you know, I am deeply appreciative of your friendship and support over the years, and I would not want to do anything which would offend you. Please accept my apology, and be assured that there will be no future repetition of this kind."
Six days later Keating sent a handwritten note back assuring McCain he has done, and can do, no wrong.

"Don't be silly. You can call me anything, write anything or do anything. I'm yours till death do us part."

The actual letter on McCain's letterhead:
http://video1.washingtontimes.com/video/Keating-Letter.jpg

[LITU]

She's a horrible piece of work.

[maxfax]

More evidence they have no integrity.

[realityczech4u]

And the smears go on........­.. Wake me up in three weeks when we've transitioned back to a Demopublican government from the current Republicrat. On second thought, don't bother. I won't be missing anything but decades-old trends and problems "progressing" and the pork continuing to be doledout. Let me sleep through the next trillion being put on Uncle Sam's credit card, probably within a month. But be sure to wake me up in time for the Demopublicans to try and buy my loyalty with another "stimilus" handout. I want to rid myself of it and give it to charity as I have in the past before the stench permeates me.

[DCtrain]

Now you to can own the Cindy McCain look alike fly catcher

[1differentdrummer]

What? John lied, again? If he tells you it is morning, check your watch.

[ohmetoo]

Have you googled c mcc ,prescription drug addiction, wiki is interesting in it's assessment. Almost sounds like serial defense, keating 5 attorney brought in, questionalbe firing of charity official, who spoke to DEA. This is very interesting read, if only half true. Seems Alaska had a hand book on firings.

[riverhouse]

Do you ever wonder if Cindy McCain was one of those AZ desert people picked up by a space ship and sent back to earth as an android? She has that look, don't you think?

[Britishdemocrat]

This is yet more corruption coming out of the GOP. When will people who vote for them ever learn that it doesn't represent them, that it isn't the party of Abe Lincoln? Abe Lincoln was a great man who fought to end slavery. He must be spinning in his grave now at what Bush and crew have done, plus all the corruption in the party. Scooter Libby, Bush, 2000 election, Cheney and him shooting a friend and now today with the scandal from Palin and Cindy McCain.

Cindy, it isn't Obama and Biden that are fighting a dirty campiagn, it is you, your husband and all your cronies who are.

[kid5rivers2]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathlyn-and-gay-hendricks/body-politics-sarah-palin_b_132785.html

[Independent voter]

Looking at this photo, I now know where to park my johnson

[Topfeeder]

Anything to shut her up.

[nodonjuan]

lol. Thanks for making me spit out my Diet Coke :)

[foghornleghorny]

This woman puts a chill down my spine.

[klondiker]

I used to think that Cindy was just another Republican stepford wife, but in recent weeks she has shown an increasingly dangerous side of her. I wonder what is hiding beneath all that beer fortune...

[riverhouse]

We all know the answer to that: mafia connections. Her father spent time in a federal prison.