House Panel Charges Waters With Ethics Violations

[Triana]

August 2, 2010

A House panel announced Monday that it had charged Rep. Maxine Waters with violating ethics rules, setting the stage for a second election-season trial for a longtime Democratic lawmaker and adding to the party's political woes.

The charges against Waters, a 10-term California congresswoman, focus on whether she broke the rules in requesting federal help for a bank where her husband was a board member and owned stock. She immediately denied the charges.

The House ethics committee's announcement comes just days after it outlined 13 charges against Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), including failing to disclose assets and income, delayed payment of federal taxes and improper use of a subsidized New York apartment for his campaign office.

Rangel, the former Ways and Means Committee chairman who has served for 40 years, faces a trial in the fall.

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[upi402]

1. Small 'potatoes' in relation REAL corruption

My post from July 31 about this tempest in a teapot;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8852414&mesg_id=8852414

[Triana]

2. I agree. Seems rather pretentious to me. n/t