Posted on 03/13/2009 1:44:18 AM PDT by markomalley
Rep. Maxine Waters, one of Los Angeles' most enduring liberal politicians, has come under scrutiny because of bailout funds that went to a bank in which her husband had owned stock and served on the board.
Waters was a senior member of the congressional committee dealing with the financial crisis when OneUnited Bank -- one of the nation's largest minority-owned institutions -- received $12 million in bailout funds.
Her husband, Sidney Williams, served on the bank board until early last year and held at least $500,000 in investments in the bank in 2007, the most recent year for which public financial disclosure statements are available.
A month before Congress enacted the bailout program, Waters helped set up a meeting between the chief executive of the bank, representatives of other financial institutions and Treasury officials.
"When a member of the financial services committee calls, you pay special attention," said Jeb Mason, who was a high-ranking Treasury official last fall.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
>>I have always had a special place in my heart for Sister Maxine since she played such a prominent role in the 1992 LA riots (”No justice, no peace”) /sarc <<
I surely wish Ms Waters bad luck politically...
But without knowing how many banks were at the meeting and whether there was anything odd about her husband’s bank being involved, its hard to know if this indicate any propriety.
That's another way of saying that Benedict had, “Balls.”
Besides abhorring her lack of integrity....I absolutely HATE her manner and ‘affected speech’.....as if to appear ‘more intelligent’. It ‘speaks VOLUMES’.
Proof that while beauty is only skin deep... ugly is to the bone.
We’re taking them down, one dirtbag at a time.
Can your hear it now. “Somebody has to defend those minority banks. You’re all racists.”
She should be under scrutiny and than tossed out on her fanny into the nearest jail cell.
I heard MS-13 is the leading employer now in her district. Won’t be long before the garbage bags found on the border contain the heads of Crip and Blood gangsters. Even then Maxine will blame rich white Republicans for it.
Sounds right out of her playbook.
Maxine “we do not have a crisis...” Waters at 0:40 seconds
http://blog.beliefnet.com/reformedchicksblabbing/2008/09/maxine-waters-we-do-not-have-a.html
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