Charles Keating

Born

1923-12-04

Died

2014-03-31

Birthplace

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Biography

Charles Humphrey Keating Jr., was an American sportsman, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, financier, conservative activist, and convicted felon best known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s. From the late 1950s through the 1970s, he was a noted anti-pornography activist, founding the organization Citizens for Decent Literature and serving as a member on the 1969 President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.