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The FBI soon focused their attention on Cranston, because the largest sums of money from Keating came into Cranston-involved voter-registration drives whose tax-exempt status might have been violated. [40] Much of the press attention to the Keating Five focused on the exact relationships of each of the senators to Keating.
Some involved money, but more revolved around sex, and a few others were tied to abuse of power. ... (which Congress passed over his veto) by removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from office ...
Senate: Maryland 1972 Federal official gratuity United States v. Brewster (1972) [11] Democrat: Joseph R. Burton: Senate: Kansas 1904 Compensated representation in a proceeding in which the United States is interested (Rev. Stat. § 1782) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. § 203) Burton v. United States (1905, 1906) [12] Republican: Frank Ballance
Keating Five (1980–1989) The failure of Lincoln Savings and Loan led to Charles Keating donating to the campaigns of five Senators for help. Keating served 42 months in prison. [360] The five were investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee which found that: Senator Alan Cranston (D-CA) was reprimanded. [361]
Joseph R. Burton Senator (R-KS) was convicted of accepting a $2,500 (equivalent to $84,778 in 2023) bribe (1904). [9]John Hipple Mitchell Senator (R-OR) was involved with the Oregon land fraud scandal, for which he was indicted and convicted while a sitting U.S. Senator (1905).
The affair with his nieces became public in 1843 and forced Hammond to withdraw from his Senate bid in 1846, but he became a Senator again in 1857. [ 20 ] (1843) Sen. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts ( Whig ) was the subject of accusations by a reporter, Jane Grey Swisshelm , in May 1850, that "his mistresses are generally, if not always ...
Image credits: Bored Panda #4 Martha Stewart Said It Was “Very Easy” To Keep Her Affair A Secret. Martha Stewart does not care what other people think or say about her affair that happened ...
The substantial political contributions Keating had made to each of the senators, totaling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Cranston, DeConcini, and Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB's investigation ...