Profit Without Honor

Profit without HonorHis face should grace a three-dollar bill. He's the flimflam financier with the towering physique and pygmy scruples, the bunco artist who tried to buy Washington while bleeding Lincoln to death.A few short years ago, when Charles H. Keating, Jr., stood at the top of the financial heap, his thrift-and-real-estate empire seemed to be worth billions. In Phoenix, his home base since 1976, he built the Phoenician, a resort hotel that he touted as the world's finest. His corporate...