Image:AlanCranston.jpg| Alan Cranston (D-CA) Image:D000186.jpg| Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) Image:Glenn.gif| John Glenn (D-OH) Image:John McCain official photo portrait.JPG| John McCain (R-AZ) Image:Don Riegle, Jr.jpg| Donald W. Riegle (D-MI) The Keating Five were five United States Senators, who were accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, John McCain (R-AZ) (the Republican nominee for the 2008 U.S. presidential election), Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, while John Glenn and John McCain had been only minimally involved. The Committee recommended censure for Cranston and criticized the other four for "questionable conduct."
All five of the senators involved served out their terms, but only Glenn and McCain ran for re-election (and were subsequently re-elected).