KEATING COUNTDOWN: To many, Charles H. Keating...
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KEATING COUNTDOWN: To many, Charles H. Keating Jr., former owner of Irvine-based Lincoln Savings & Loan, led a lavish lifestyle resulting from great greed. But jurors who will listen to closing arguments at his criminal fraud trial in Los Angeles today will probably not identify with such high living. . . . Nine are government workers, none has a four-year college degree, and none, based on jury questionnaires, has more than moderate means.
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