Founder of an "anti-pornography" organization called Citizens for Decent Literature in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was on President
Richard Nixon's Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1969. He was also, as president of Lincoln Savings & Loan in the late 1980s, convicted of multiple counts of wire fraud, racketeering and conspiracy due to his involvement in financial irregularities and criminal activities which led to the collapse of Lincoln Savings, which ultimately cost the US government over $3 billion and which resulted in more than 23,000 depositors losing most or all of the money they had deposited in Lincoln Savings. He served 4-1/2 years in prison before being released in 1996.