Investment scam artist and former Oregon State GOP chairman Craig Berkman is hurling thousands of dollars into the Psychogeezer’s campaign war chest despite the fact that he is tens of millions in the hole to repay all the investors a jury found he stole from them in his scummy investment scam.

The Psychogeezer, Mr. Finance Reform himself, shockingly, is sucking up all the money like a starving dog on a pork loin, Williamette Week reports. The Portland weekly looked in the Federal Election Commission filings and found that Berkman had thrown $50,000 at Republican political enterprise but the biggest chunk of change had gone to the guy who was made famous for putting in the fix for criminal mastermind and S&L bust-out artist Charles Keating: the Psychogeezer.

Over the past two years, the weekly reported, fraud mastermind Berkman tossed McCain $9,200, small potatoes compared to the $112,000 that Keating had gifted to McCain political coffers. For that Keating got a sitting US Senator to run interference with the bank regulators who were desperately trying to get the Lincoln Savings & Loan bust-out under control, a multi-layered criminal enterprise that involved fraudulent loans and inducing depositors to buy overpriced Lincoln stock.

Berkman, an alleged venture capitalist and failed Oregon gubernatorial candidate, certainly could use a powerful friend now. A country court in Oregon found he’d defrauded Oregon investors and a Canadian retirement fund, grabbing the money they’d invested with his fund and lying about it, and ordered him to repay some $28 million for scamming those investors and lying to them. What could Berkman expect for $9,200?

A friendly phone call to an appeals court judge? A ride on a Congressional page the next time he is in Washington? An invitation to one of those famous GOP cannibal barbeques? What say you, Cynics?