Joe the Plumber is a fake (he's related to the Keating Five scandal, John McCain's 'asterisk')
McCain's Joe the Plumber is actually the son of Robert Wurzelbacher, who is Charles Keating's son-in-law, according to the Enquirer.
You may remember Charles Keating from the previous savings and loan crisis in 1989. He was the head of Lincoln Savings and Loan, which collapsed in 1989 at a cost of over $3 billion to the federal government. More than 23,000 shareholders were defrauded and elderly customers lost their life savings.
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