Maxine Waters’ Ethics Trial Stalls. Again.
The long-delayed ethics probe of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) may be underway again, however Waters is now threatening to sue the House Ethics Committee.
Waters is accused of using her influence to gain special treatment for Massachusetts-based bank OneUnited, which received $12 million in bailout funds. Changing a law was required in order to get them the money. Her husband, former Ambassador Sidney Williams, owned more than $350,000 in stock in the bank, and had also been a board member.
Because of infighting following the November 2010 election, her trial had been postponed indefinitely. Waters is now seeking to have the case dismissed and is threatening legal action against the committee as well. According to Politico:
Rep. Maxine Waters is calling for the House Ethics Committee to dismiss the long-running case against her, claiming she can’t get fair treatment from the secretive panel in the wake of allegations that staffers improperly shared information in an investigation into her finances.
In another story, Politico claims information about Waters’ finances was funneled to Republicans on the committee improperly:
Blake Chisam, the former staff director and chief counsel for the Ethics Committee, accused the two lead investigators in the Waters probe of secretly feeding information to Republicans on the Ethics Committee, including [Congressman Jo] Bonner. Chisam also accused the staffers of misleading lawmakers and other staff on the status of the investigation.
Since these two stories broke, the committee has hired outside counsel to continue the investigation. NPR reports:
The House ethics committee has named Washington lawyer Billy Martin as an outside counsel to investigate California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters.
The announcement Wednesday follows months of conflict in the committee over handling of the case.
It’s notable that Waters is not asking for the case to be dismissed on the merits, but only because she claims she can no longer get a fair trial. According to Politico:
[Waters’ attorney Stan Brand] laid out several “categories of misconduct by current Committee members and staff,” including “prohibited and prejudicial ex parte communications” … “internal and malicious misleading of members and staff relating to the investigation” by the two ex-staffers; “Evidence of partiality and bias” against Waters; “the use of trumped-up federal obstruction and perjury charges by Committee counsel…”; and “the illegal leaking of confidential Committee documents, transcripts, emails and other information to the media to create a miss-impression regarding both the strength of the case against [Waters] and the Committee ability to proceed with the case.”
According to the Legal Times, Martin is a well-known trial lawyer with a resume that includes the Department of Justice, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, and former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell.
The bitch is playing the race card to the max. Burn her like the witch she is.
AMEN to that. she needs to be in leavenworth making little gravel from large boulders 12 hours a day for the next 40 years and one day.
That no one really expects Maxine to ever feel the consequences of her crime is one more indicator of the crumbling of our society.
Sad but correct, sir. The outcome is predictable because race trumps justice in current America.
Truly thinking she is a part of the ruling class our founders sought to protect us from.
She already has the race and gender cards, can she draw three more from the dealer for a winning hand?.
Until this country starts saying NO to the PC crowd there will be no “honest and transparent” government.
Oh my, Faux News is replaying Bambi’s get tough speech for the High Noon show down at 11 AM today, what a maroon.
I’ve never cared what race she is. I’ve never cared that she is female. But at the end of the day, she’s still stupid and she’s still in our government. Taken separately, each issue is not a problem but together, they compound the two simple problems and magnify them. My vote is to dump money into a Mars-Landing mission and have her be the sole occupant then have her go look for that flag that Neil Armstrong planted there (so she said) and see how long it takes her to find it. And she can’t come back to Earth until she does.
I don’t care what race she is, nor what gender she is. I don’t even care how stupid she may or may not be. What appalls me is the abysmal stupidity of the people who keep voting her back into office and now one of her former cohorts in LA is going to the house where she (Janice Hahn) can do more stupid things.
What a truly HORRIBLE woman. She makes Nancy Pelosi seem almost genteel. Almost.
haveyou ever noticed how UGLY and bitter looking damned near all democrat women are? and how good looking 95% of the republican and independant women are? maxine and peloosey are two very good examples,
If it was a Republican Congressman instead of Maxine Waters, the Democrats would already have set up an electric chair on the steps of the capital building. What hypocrites Pelosi and her gang are.
“Electric chair”? No, it would be a guillotine. And do not be surprised if that starts to happen. The democrat-socialists are running true-to-form. Blaming Republicans for the fiscal woes and simply lying. Waters is guilty as hell and should be sent to prison, but like all other democrat-socialists, she won’t even get reprimanded.
Figures, the basis of her defense is a Congressional version of a suppression hearing. Recently got a guy off on a gun possession charge where without emergency circumstances, his landlord allowed a search in his absence.”Reasonable Expectation of Privacy and all that.”
Dr. Shalit
It will be an even bigger farce if, like Rangel, she is found guilty and made to suffer that horrible penalty of standing in front of the house and be told she is a bad girl.
As long as her “constituents” keep reelecting her, more of the same will come from this self-avowed socialist/communist.
The double standard for Dems in trouble is amazing. If this were a GOPer the MSM would be hyping this 24/7.
Here’s some good news though…the criminal idiot John Conyers is about to be gerrymandered out of his seat in Detroit. The Republican, Michigan legislature has drawn a new district in which he keeps only 20% of his former voters. He picks up a large suburban, white population.
He, of course, is calling it racist.
what else would you expect from that slimeball. if it’s not to his likeing and favor it’s racist. he should have been sent packing many years ago,
Maxine is waiting to spring her evidence that the Cracker Intelligence Agency (CIA) is behind this. Not content with destroying the black family, distributing drugs in the ghetto and imprisoning every other young black male, the CIA is now bringing down the African-American political leadership. It revealed Al Sharpton’s role in stirring murderous violence in Harlem, Jesse Jackson’s secret second family, got the goods on Charlie Rangel, put Cold Cash Jefferson behind bars and now it’s after the top target after Obama, Waters herself.
If Waters could borrow a gallon of Botox from Pelosi and an oz. of honesty from anyone she might look and act almost human.
Waters will get off. Rangel did get off. Obama will be re-elected. We all know it.
What is even crazier then Maxine Waters allegations is the “ethics committee” hiring an outside agency to investigate the ethics committee. If you were going to hire a outside investigator why not investigate old Maxine? Stupid is as stupid does and this government leaves a lot to be desired in the brains department.
When socialist commit crimes, it’s called heroism.
Sue? Separate co-equal branches. The Court has no say in Congress’s internal shenanigan.
13, Rangel did not get off. The House’s censure allows him to enjoy his ill gotten gains without further repercussions. The Den of Thieves’s censure provides cover and protection for him.
Waters should stop whinning and demand Rangel’s treatment.
It’s the classic defense for the client who hasn’t got a case. As lawyers say -”If you have the facts then argue the facts. If you have the law then argue the law. If you don’t have either then pound the table and scream.”
Apparently it is impossible to get rid of corrupt Dems in congress. They can not even be embarrassed out of office. What the hell good is an ethics committee when even Rangel only gets a slap on the hand and keeps all his ill-gotten gains? Was he fined or anything?
The French had a “revolutionary” method of curing this problem.
True, but in France those running Madame’ Guillotine were more like Waters and Rangel than those riding in the tumbrels were.
Marat and Robespierre’ would have been cheering Waters, not sharpening the blade for her. As with Marat’s modern heirs, the MSM, her “philosophy” would excuse any sins, on the principle of the ends justifying the means.
And of course she has all the Politically Correct Hatreds in her consciousness, as well.
A true Hero(ine) Of The Glorious People’s Socialist (Or Whatever) Revolution.
cheers
eon
Maxine Waters is just a poor excuse for a human being, Her and obama must be related, both throw tizzy fits and lie like h-ll! Where is our shinning light DOJ eric holder? Oh he is to busy pardoning other black and hispanic criminals to worry about a little thing like the law!
How does Maxine manage to skirt the rule of nepotism? Her chief of Staff, is her grandson, I thought This was a no no per house rules. No dares ask her ,for fear of the race card, she always manages to use. Who is paying his salary? If Maxine were a GOP, then the lefties would be squawking.
Putting the name Maxine Waters in the same sentence as ethics is a conflict. She has no ethics. The Ethics committee has no spine to do anything so all of this is a waste of time and money.
If they were serious about investigating corruption in congress then they would have outside investigators for all allegations. But, since they may themselves become the focus of an investigation that is the last thing they want to do.
Waters should be removed from office and sent to prison. That would be the ethical thing to do. Don’t hold your breath.
Will Maxie benefit financially by the delays? I am wondering if she will gain retirement income if she leaves Congress.
America needs a new better broom to remove all garbage from positions of political power. It stink!!!
Aunt Esther after being beaten with the “ugly stick”
Maxzine Waters is the epitome of females in the dem party; mostly bwitches, morons and cheats.
I know it’s shallow but got dang that woman is a fugly old hag from hell.
This old sow needs to be tossed out on her arse. Further, the people need to file suit against her for frauding the public by attempting to imitate a Congressman. What a useless hunk of humanity she is.
She says her staff funneled information to the Republicans, IF that was illegal then that shows just how much her staff supports her lol And if it is not illegal (and I do not think it is) then that shows how much her staff wants to do what is right.
She and more then 3/4 of congress has to go if they have been there for more then 2 terms it is time to go. Enough with this being a career. It was never meant to be and should not be.
Maxine Waters is a scheming, dreadful woman and unworthy of the seat she was elected to by her fawning, ignorant constituents. I hope there are Congressmen who have the gumption to see this thing through to conclusion.
When will the Ethics Committee take this woman down? She has clearly violated the rules. I am sick of her playing the race card too!