Election 2002: McBride's chief fund-raiser reinvents himself again Sunday, September 29, 2002 By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO — Richard Swann stood at the bleakest point of his career a decade ago. Federal regulators had taken over the savings and loan company that he led and nurtured in the 1980s. His collapsed S&L cost taxpayers more than $500 million and Swann was forced to declare personal bankruptcy, disband his law firm and sell the 17-room home where he had raised his four children. Such a business disaster would have ended the career of many executives. But it didn't sink Swann,...