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Former lawyer, politician and morality campaigner.

Founder of an "anti-pornography" organization called Citizens for Decent Literature in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was on President Richard Nixon's Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1969. He was also, as president of Lincoln Savings & Loan in the late 1980s, convicted of multiple counts of wire fraud, racketeering and conspiracy due to his involvement in financial irregularities and criminal activities which led to the collapse of Lincoln Savings, which ultimately cost the US government over $3 billion and which resulted in more than 23,000 depositors losing most or all of the money they had deposited in Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. He served 4-1/2 years in prison before being released in 1996. The "Keating Five" comprised Senators Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), Donald Riegle (D-MI), and John McCain (R-AZ).

Portrayed by James Cromwell in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).

His younger brother William John Keating (Cincinnati, 30 March1927 - May 20, 2020, Cincinnati) was a lawyer, member of Congress, businessman and news executive.

Invented most of the data cited in the film he produced "Perversion For Profit".