WASHINGTON (OfficialWire) — California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters won’t be charged with ethics violations following allegations she steered a $12 million federal bailout to a bank where her husband owns stock.
House Ethics Committee members said Friday at a hearing their investigation found no violation by Waters, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee.
However, the committee said Waters’ chief of staff, Mikael Moore, did take actions in Congress in an attempt to help the bank and violated House standards of conduct. Moore likely will receive a letter admonishing him for his conduct but will not face more severe punishment, such as a reprimand, by the full House.
Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, acting chairman of the panel, announced the tentative findings at the hearing but noted the committee had not issued a final report.
Goodlatte said the committee was convinced that when Waters asked for a meeting at the Treasury Department to discuss financial help for minority banks, she believed she did so on behalf of all minority banks — not just OneUnited, where her husband owns stock. Goodlatte said the committee agreed with Waters’ assertion.
Read More at OfficialWire. By Larry Margasak.
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I disagree on everything this woman stands for, and I was glad to see the investigation going forward. But the final investigation could find no proof that she went to bat for just one bank which is against ethics- that she was prepared to listen to small banks to learn how she might help is not against ethics. We don’t have proof so we must let her go. We can’t just know she did or would if she could, we need proof she did and we don’t have it. It won’t be the last investigation of our Congress by no means. We are electing people who go to do their job and scaring those who haven’t been. You were lucky, lady, but don’t have a celebration as we are not done.
What a joke, even when the chocolate chips are smeared all over their faces and the milk bottle is empty and they all have that white milk mustache, if they are Democrats and they deny having eaten the chocolate Chip cookies and drank all of the milk they will be exonerated of any wrong doing, that’s just the way it is!
Surprise! Surprise ! Surprise! Ummmmmmmmmmm N O T. Typical BS. LibTards get away with every thing. That is why they continue to do the lawless things they do. Nauseating…………..
The corruption continues……..
Yes Virginia, it is true that the law makers in the congress make the laws for WTP to obey and their the laws to help them not be caught and prosecuted as crooks…WE PAY TO MUCH FOR THE DIMINISHING REPRESENTATION WE PAY FOR…
The only reason she wasn’t charged is because she is a lying dirt bag boon, If she was white she would of been hung out to dry
Maxine Waters – I hope you realize that there is nothing hidden from God’s eyes and He will reward those that are righteous and He will reward those that are unrighteous….. I hope you own a asbestos jumpsuit.
Typical of our do nothing Republican reps. I am SICK of them. I want names of those on the committee & who voted how, ’cause I sure ain’t voting for them ever again! But, watchman48 is soooo right. GOD sees, & HE’S the one that takes ‘vengeance’. Whether here on earth, or on Judgment Day.
The rats judging the rats …how quaint! Waters is guilty of nothing more than using her congressional influence to enrich herself and her family. Standard practice in today’s congress. MORONS!
Its no surprise to me either…all the demorats that have been investigated have not been found in violation. Another reason I hope California votes her and pelosi out of office!
So I guess when the politicians break the law the citizens need to step in and investigate and prosecute to really get justice for the American people. It seems every time they prosecute themselves, they get either a slap on the wrist or off scott free!!!
How these crooks can lie must be natural for them.