Maxine Waters: "I'm taking the gloves off"

Take off the wig Maxine, not the gloves! - According to the LA Times,

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Maxine Waters’ relatives had made more than $1 million by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters had helped. They claimed she and her husband helped a company get government bond business, and her daughter Karen Waters and son Edward Waters have profited from her connections. Waters replied that “They do their business and I do mine.”

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) named Waters to its list of corrupt members of Congress in its 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2011 reports. She used her position to prevail upon officials to meet with OneUnited Bank without disclosing that she and her husband had significant stock holdings in the company. Since she was on the Financial Services Committee she largely had the role of determining where TARP funds would go. $12 Million in TARP funds went to OneUnited without her ever disclosing that she had a financial stake at the company.

Citizens Against Government Waste named her the June 2009 Porker of the Month due to her intention to obtain an earmark for the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center.

In 2010, Waters came under investigation for ethics violations and was accused by a House panel of at least one ethics violation related to her efforts to help OneUnited Bank receive federal aid. Waters’ husband is a stockholder and former director of OneUnited Bank and the bank’s executives were major contributors to her campaigns.

In September 2008, Waters arranged meetings between U.S. Treasury Department officials and OneUnited Bank, so that the bank could plead for federal cash. The bank received $12 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money.

The matter was investigated by the House Ethics Committee, which charged her with violations of the House’s ethics rules in 2010.

Lawmaker Didn’t Break Ethics Rules in Bank Case, Investigator Finds - sm

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WASHINGTON — Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, did not violate House ethics rules when she contacted the Treasury Department in 2008 to set up a meeting on behalf of top executives from a bank her husband owns stock in, a special investigator announced on Friday.

But the House ethics committee is still debating whether her chief of staff, Mikael Moore, acted improperly when he continued to work behind the scenes on behalf of the same bank, OneUnited, which is based in Boston.

The findings, which still must be acted on by the ethics committee, represent some of the final steps in what has been a three-year investigation into Ms. Waters’s actions during the financial crisis.

If the recommendation of the special investigator is approved, as is expected, it will represent a major victory for Ms. Waters, clearing the way for her to take over the spot as the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, where she has long served. The committee’s ranking Democrat, Barney Frank of Massachusetts, is retiring.

Ms. Waters has long argued she did nothing wrong when she made that September 2008 phone call to Henry M. Paulson Jr., who was the treasury secretary at the time, to set up the meeting attended by executives from OneUnited, then near financial collapse.

Billy Martin, a former federal prosecutor who was named this year as an ethics committee special investigator for this case, said Friday at an unusual public hearing on the case that Ms. Waters believed at the time she made this call that she was acting on behalf of all minority-owned banks, not just OneUnited.

Only after the 2008 meeting did Ms. Waters find out that OneUnited executives dominated the event, asking for a special bailout by the Treasury Department, Mr. Martin said. If the bank had failed, her husband could have lost an investment then worth about $350,000.

Mr. Martin told an ethics committee panel Friday that once Ms. Waters learned of OneUnited’s request for special treatment, she told Mr. Moore to stay out of the matter, the investigators found.

“Representative Waters went above and beyond what was required of her,” said Representative Steven C. LaTourette, Republican of Ohio. “There is nothing left with Representative Waters.” ...

Just because she has committed ethics violations - Burt the Cat

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doesn't mean that Trump has not.

People like Maxine Waters are the soul of the - ugly Democrat party.

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I’m glad this witch is becoming more visible to the public.

She's also a racist. - sm

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There, I said it.

Most definitely! Tell us, Mad Maxine, how you reside in a - multimilllion dollar home outside of

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your district. Your district is mostly poor blacks but you live in a rich district with only 6% blacks. Tell us, Mad Max, who is funding your lavish lifestyle? Are you afraid to live in your district?

Not only her lifestyle, but that of her son and daughter as well. - sm

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Be careful what you wish for, Maxine.