Charles Keating

Re “Keating Pleads Guilty to Fraud; Legal Saga Ends,” April 7:

The judge imposes no fines or restitution payments because Charles H. Keating says he’s broke? And Keating rides away from the courthouse in a chauffeured Lincoln Town Car? Please, someone take all my assets so I can have a limousine too.

DON DEVICH

Santa Barbara

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Evidently “broke” for people like Keating is not the same as “broke” for us common folk.

JOHN SCHULTE

Banning

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During the Clinton scandal (which, in Los Angeles parlance, is, like, I mean, you know, so last year), we heard a lot about how we’re in a “moral decline.” I never did get an answer to my question, “Decline from what?”

Perhaps morals did mean a lot more back in the weighty ‘80s, the era of upright businessmen like Keating, Barry Minkow and Mike Milken. After all, their crimes only involved bilking the public out of millions. We all know that “morality” becomes an issue only as it concerns s-e-x.

KEVIN DAWSON

Sunland