On September 11, 1994, the fifth Profile in Courage Award was presented to U.S. Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Chairman of the House Banking Committee, who launched a series of dramatic hearings on the savings and loan crisis, which resulted in far-reaching legislation to clean up the mess and reform the industry. Charles Keating was convicted of seventeen counts of fraud and sentenced to ten years in prison, and five U.S. Senators were later criticized by the Senate Ethics Committee for intervening with regulators on Keating's behalf. Congressman Gonzalez was also cited for his political courage in investigating, regardless of the attempts to strip him of his committee chairmanship, the involvement of high-level officials in the Reagan and Bush Administrations in the sale of U.S. arms to Iraq before the Persian Gulf War in 1991. He died in 2000.