Subject: Charles Keating

• Before She Was Speaker

  Nancy Pelosi's forgotten cameo in the savings and loan scandal.

  March 4, 2009

• Bonfire of the Profanities

  An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.

  March 4, 2009

• Zipped Up

  S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

  January 19, 2005

• Prosecutors' Patience Wears Thin With Levada, Mahony

  June 25, 2003

• This Bud's for John

  John McCain's family

  March 1, 2000

• An Endowed Chair

  Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.

  December 15, 1999

• Apparent Ponzi Scheme Advertised in Sunday Chronicle, Fraud Investigator Says

  Banking experts qualify the service being hawked in this San Francisco Chronicle ad as a potential Ponzi schemeReaders skimming the ads on page D-2 of the Sunday, July 12 San Francisco Chronicle might have been surprised to see an extraordinary investment opportunity in a quarter-page advertisement running a couple columns below Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon. "You can now earn: 1 year -- 11.00 percent," the advertisement announces, urging readers to go to a Web site describing "investment notes"

  July 17, 2009

• Advanta Corp.'s dubious investment offer in the Chronicle

  July 29, 2009

• No Justice

  October 28, 2009

• Department of Can't Say We Didn't Warn Ya: Dicey Investment Offer Advertised in Chronicle Goes Bad

  ​On Friday, July 17 The Snitch warned readers that an advertisement published in the previous Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle seemed intended to lure mom-and-pop investors into possible financial disaster.News headlines Monday suggest our warning was valid. Advanta Corp., a bank holding company specializing in small business credit cards announced today it was filing for bankruptcy, throwing into question whether the company would pay in-full investment notes advertised in the Chronicle's bus

  November 9, 2009