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Case Study: Representative Maxine Waters

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Representative Maxine Waters, D-California The fall of 2008 brought forth a three-year Congressional Ethics investigation in to Rep Maxine Waters, Democrat for California. Representative Waters was charged by the House Ethics Committee with unspecified violations. The advisory group said the board discovered "generous reason" to trust that Waters may have damaged House administers in the wake of surveying a report arranged by the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). The charges originated from a meeting that Waters asked for at the onset of the money related emergency in September 2008 with then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. Waters and Paulson did not go to the meeting, but rather Treasury authorities and individuals from the National Bankers Association (NBA), an exchange association speaking to more than 100 black-owned firms, did. This caused the Ethics Committee to frown upon this meeting because one of the main banks that was invited was OneUnited, one …show more content…

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