The Washington Post reports that Lowell Paxson, the client of Alcalde & Fay lobbyist Vicki Iseman with whom John McCain’s advisors worried he was having an affair, has contradicted McCain’s statement that he had no contact with Paxson regarding his trade.

As I posted yesterday, Newsweek reported that McCain denied contact with Paxson — claiming that he had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter. And as Newsweek reported, in McCain’s 2002 legal testimony, he contradicted himself: “He [Paxson] wanted their approval very not good for reasons of his commerce.

In the 1980s, remember, McCain intervened to keep regulators absent from Charles Keating, a Savings & Loan operator, who contributed to McCain’s campaign and let McCain’s wife co-invest in a real estate deal. Keating’s Lincoln Savings and Loan ultimately floped, costing taxpayers $3.4 billion. What does that have to do with Paxson?

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