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Crooks and Liars & Digging a little deeper into McCain ethical lapses
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May 10, 9:45pm
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Digging a little deeper into McCain ethical lapses
From the page: "When considering John McCain's history of unethical behavior, the list usually starts (and ends) with the Keating Five scandal in the 1980s, for which McCain was rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee for having shown, at a minimum, poor judgment. While McCain took on the role of a 'reformer' in the scandal's aftermath, his ethical lapses have hardly disappeared.
The NYT noted a few weeks ago, for example, that McCain went to considerable lengths in 1999 to help one of his top campaign fundraisers buy the land at an Army base that was being closed. McCain helped his benefactor get the land --and special water rights-- for just $250,000, which the donor then sold two years later for $30 million. (The donor, Donald Diamond, was rather candid about buying influence with politicians: "I want my money back, for Christ's sake. Do you know how many cocktail parties I have to go to?" It's the kind of obvious influence peddling McCain swears he never gets involved with.
Today, the WaPo has a front-page item highlighting yet another real-estate controversy in which McCain helped out one of his most generous supporters.
>>> see post below "Mr. (Integrity re: Lobbyist Whore) McCain Pushed Land Swap Deal...""
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