{"product_id":"trust-me-charles-keating-and-the-missing-billions","title":"Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions","description":"\u003cp\u003eJesse James. Willie Sutton. Bonnie and Clyde. John Dillinger. Charles Keating. Charles Keating? In the pantheon of Americans who have removed from banks what wasnt theirs  Charles Keating stands tall. Over $2 billion tall  to be exact. When the money disappeared from his Lincoln Savings \u0026amp; Loan  now collapsed  Charles Keating was accused of promulgating the largest bank failure in U.S. history. In Trust Me  the bizarre world of Keating is revealed in a financial farce that reads like a collaboration written by Robert Penn Warren  Sinclair Lewis  and Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. See Keating battle Larry Flynt over pornography  give millions to Mother Teresa  and lose $100 000 at a craps table. Watch Keating contribute $1.4 million to five U.S. senators  build a $300 million hotel in the middle of the desert  and toss paper clips into the open mouth of his sleeping heir. Witness armies of federal regulators desperately try to piece together the methods  madness  and mystique of Charles Keating in brave attempts to nab him amid his great adventure. Through it all  Keating has never confessed  begged for mercy  or recanted. Facing over five hundred years in prison  he remains defiant  an American original  a patriot who believes he did nothing wrong. Greed and power should be rewarded  not condemned; Keating simply used the rules to win. Novelistic  captivating  and powerful  Trust Me is a brilliant morality tale about the American way - a red  white  and blue testament to piety and corruption run wild.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959079170101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679416994","price":48.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679416999.jpg?v=1770373644","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/trust-me-charles-keating-and-the-missing-billions","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}