BUSINESS
March 18, 1992 | JAMES S. GRANELLI, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The accounting firm of Touche, Ross & Co. never joined Charles H. Keating Jr. and "his merry band of thieves" in conspiring to loot Lincoln Savings & Loan, a lawyer for the accounting firm told a federal court jury Tuesday. Touche, now called Deloitte & Touche, is a "scapegoat, someone to blame," for the 1989 collapse of the Irvine thrift and its parent company, American Continental Corp., John T.