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| Keating Five Scandal | | Congress |  |  |  | AP Photo - Sen. John McCain, in his book "Worth Fighting For," lamented that the Keating Five "were now a two-word shorthand for ... the rotten way American political campaigns are financed."
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| Keating Five Scandal | | John McCain | | |  | The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today's credit crisis, where a lack of regulation and cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress has allowed banks to make risky loans and...
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| United States Navy | | John McCain |  | | | McCain, the son and grandson of admirals, had a privileged status in the Navy. He was invited to the captain's cabin for dinner on the maiden voyage of the Enterprise in 1962, a perk other aviators a...
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| Alan Quasha | | China |  | |  | While Quasha & Co. keep an eye on hedge fund regulation, they also appear to be helping the repressive Chinese government keep an eye on its own people. Brean Murray, Carret recently acted as the sol...
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| Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi | | Harken Energy |  | |  | In 2003 Harken was described in the trade publication Platts Energy Economist as "a toxic waste dump for bad deals, with a strong odor of US intelligence spookery and chicanery about it." Indeed, the...
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| Alan Quasha | | Bill Clinton | | |  | But throughout their political careers, Bill and Hillary Clinton have repeatedly associated with people whose objectives seemed a million miles from "a place called Hope." Among these Alan Quasha and...
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