It's amazing to me how the FReepers who are the most opposed to Juan McCain, the ones who should know the most about him because they've been freaking out about him 24/7 for years, continue to bring up the Keating Five.
McCain was only the focus of hearings in that matter because if they did the right thing and left him out their would be four Dems and no GOP senators under investigation. The committee's cousel (Bob "I defended Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky mess" Bennett, there's a GOP operative for you) said there was insufficient evidence against McCain and John Glenn to evencontinue investigating them.
IOW, it was a Dem run railroad job.
The Keating Five were investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee. The Committees work, however, was made difficult because at the time there was no specific rule governing the propriety of members intervening with federal regulators. During the investigation, McCain said, I have done this kind of thing [intervene] many, many times, and said the Lincoln case was like helping the little lady who didnt get her Social Security. In 1991, after a lengthy investigation, the committee cleared McCain of impropriety but said he had exercised poor judgment. Some of the committee members were concerned that letting the senators off lightly would harm their own reputations. Nevertheless, the existing Senate rules did not specifically proscribe the actions taken by DeConcini, Riegle, Glenn, and McCain. After the finding, McCain admitted his poor judgment and would write in 2002 that attending the two April 1987 meetings with Keating was the worst mistake of my life.