The House ethics committee today released three charges of ethical wrongdoing against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California.
The charges relate to whether Waters gave inappropriate assistance to a bank to which she had personal connections (her husband was a former board member) in getting federal bailout money.
The committee says Waters organized a meeting in 2008 between Treasury officials and executives from OneUnited Bank, where her husband was once a board member and had large investments. The bank received $12 million from the federal government's Troubled Asset Relief Program.
The first charge against Waters states she violated a House rule that members must "behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House." Waters should have instructed her chief of staff to stop assisting OneUnited once it became clear she should not be involved in helping the bank, but she failed to do so, the charges state.
Her staff's "continued involvement in assisting OneUnited created an appearance that [Waters] was taking official action for [Waters'] personal benefit, which did not reflect creditably on the House," the charges state.
Waters was also charged with violating the "spirit" of the House rule that prohibits a member from receiving compensation for exerting improper influence from her position in Congress. Waters' husband's investments in OneUnited constituted compensation, according to the charges.
People in , wake up and smell the stench of the overwhelming corruption that is taking over this country !
It seems almost all long time politicians have been bought out by corporate America, etc.
Get out there and vote all long term politicians out of office and get some fresh blood in there...
