Who is Charles Keating from The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice and what is their importance?

Charles Keating is a money manager who was serving ten years in prison when this book was published for his part in a notorious Savings and Loan fraud in America. Hitchens points out that Keating stole $252 million from 17,000 individuals, and that he donated about $1 million of these stolen funds to the Catholic Church through Mother Teresa, who wrote the judge to ask for clemency during Keating's trial. Afterwards, when Keating's prosecutor wrote to Mother Teresa, described the convicted man's crimes, and asked her to return the money, she did not respond and the money was never returned.