BANKING
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Keating Jury Checks on Bond Sale: The jury in the securities fraud case against Charles H. Keating Jr. asked for a reading of testimony from a customer who bought a $100,000 bond in Keating’s company and from a saleswoman who sold him the risky bond. In their second day of deliberations, the jurors reviewed testimony about the November, 1988, transaction involving Robert J. Evans of Laguna Beach and Beverly Figeira, the former bond saleswoman for American Continental Corp. Evans is one of the bondholders named in 18 counts that accuse Keating of defrauding small investors who purchased bonds at the company’s main subsidiary, Lincoln Savings & Loan. They lost their money when Keating’s empire collapsed in April, 1989.
