It's Official: Ethics Committee Charges Maxine Waters With Violations

[babylonsister]

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It's Official: Ethics Committee Charges Waters With Violations
Rachel Slajda | August 2, 2010, 2:53PM


The House ethics committee announced today that it will charge Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) with ethics violations.

The panel did not name the charges. They'll be announced at the first public meeting of an adjudicatory subcommittee, which was formed to determine whether Waters did in fact break any House rules.

The date of that first meeting is still to be determined. The House is in recess for August.

Along with the press release, the ethics committee also posted the findings of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, which forwarded their report on Waters last August.

Waters allegedly broke the rules by setting up a meeting between then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and the CEO of a bank where her husband owned $250,000 in stock and used to sit on the board of directors.

Waters has reportedly decided to fight the charges and will go through with the trial-like adjudicatory hearing. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), in a separate case, has also decided to fight ethics charges in a public hearing.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh good grief.

I'd really like to know just where these yahoos were during the eight long * years!

:argh:

[babylonsister]

2. I hear you, Peggy.

I'm disgusted, too.

[laughingliberal]

10. Looking forward? nt

[SugarShack]

3. Maybe she shouldn't have played so nice, after hearing testimony from Clint Curtis on vote rigging

The video is still on DU.

Here's a good page from DU political video section:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/searchresults.html?q=Clint+Curtis+testifies+before+congressional+committee&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&domains=democraticunderground.com&client=pub-7805397860504090&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en

[aquart]

4. Any Republicans with ethics violations?

Any charges for any of them?

[DaughterOfBilitis]

5. And yet Tom DeLay remains a free man.

I adore Maxine and hope she didn't violate any rules.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Two different things. Delay resigned to avoid the Ethics Committee trial and is still (I guess)

facing criminal charges in Texas.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I don't understand this. How can one be charged with a violation, if the sub-

committee which is 'to determine whether Waters did in fact break any House rules' hasn't even met?

[Blue Owl]

8. Great Moments in Crony Justice

Justice for all? I don't think so.

[DURHAM D]

9. Come on - its just a meeting...

If the Keating Five basically got off - shouldn't she get off?

Or will they apply different standards for a black female in the House?

[damntexdem]

13. A Black DEMOCRATIC female in the current Congress.

Not a mix of Dems and GOPs in a Congress where backs were patted across the aisles.

[spanone]

15. watch the media, then tell me it's just a meeting.

they won't have to do anything...just the implication will give the media a clear road to crucifixion

[Bitwit1234]

11. How come Ensign hasn't been charged?

He has a federal investigation going. Shouldn't they charge him with ethics violation. On since Waters was cited for a violation of congress rules, is Ensign's illegal bribes NOT A VIOLATION OF THE RULES, ADDED TO THE FACT HE IS A REPUBLICAN. Guess that lets him off the hook.

[laughingliberal]

12. Does seem he's being proteted. nt

[tritsofme]

16. I would speculate it is because Ensign is a senator

and the Senate has different rules than the House.

I know Pelosi passed stringent ethics guidelines in the House after the 2006 takeover, and I doubt the Senate followed suit.

[Greyhound]

14. Fifth columnists pushing the "unreliable" elements out one at a time.

Another of Dennis K's strengths. Probably the only rep in the House that hasn't become "extraordinarily lucky" with his investments while he's been there.