BUSINESS
October 3, 2000 | E. SCOTT RECKARD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Former Lincoln Savings & Loan boss Charles H. Keating Jr. won a final victory Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court, defeating attempts to reinstate his 1991 state court conviction on charges of swindling elderly investors. Without comment, the high court refused to reopen the case, leaving intact lower court rulings that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lance Ito had allowed a flawed prosecution.
BUSINESS
September 17, 1999 | BOB EGELKO, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Disgraced former savings and loan executive Charles Keating, released from prison earlier this year after admitting to federal fraud charges, won a federal appeals court ruling Thursday against a prosecution attempt to reinstate his state fraud convictions. In a 2-1 decision, the 9th U.S.
BUSINESS
August 7, 1999 | EDMUND SANDERS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In another legal victory for Charles H. Keating Jr., a federal appeals court Friday voided a $4.3-billion judgment against the former Lincoln Savings & Loan boss, ruling that the government should have given him a full trial before holding him personally liable for the collapse of his thrift. The decision overturns a 1994 ruling by a federal judge in Arizona, who ordered Keating to pay the Resolution Trust Corp.
BUSINESS
August 7, 1999 | EDMUND SANDERS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In another legal victory for Charles H. Keating Jr., a federal appeals court on Friday voided a $4.3-billion judgment against the former Lincoln Savings & Loan boss, ruling that the government should have given him a full trial before holding him personally liable for the collapse of his thrift. The decision overturns a 1994 ruling by a federal judge in Arizona, who ordered Keating to pay Resolution Trust Corp.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 8, 1999 | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
She calls herself one of the "losers," one of the trusting, unsophisticated people who plowed their life savings into junk bonds sold in branches of Charles H. Keating Jr.'s savings and loan. A widow with a ninth-grade education, who grew up poor in Arkansas and still sews her own clothes, Wanda Bean lost almost every nickel her husband left her to Keating's infamous junk bond deal. On Wednesday, a place deep inside her that hasn't hurt for a while began to sting again.
NEWS
April 8, 1999 | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
She calls herself one of the "losers," one of the trusting, unsophisticated people who plowed their life savings into junk bonds sold in the Southern California branches of Charles H. Keating Jr.'s Irvine thrift. A widow with a ninth-grade education who grew up poor in Arkansas and still sews her own clothes, Wanda Bean lost almost every nickel her husband left her to Keating's infamous junk bond deal. On Wednesday, a place deep inside her that hasn't hurt for awhile began to sting again.