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by Susan Crabtree
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is capitalizing on ethics committee blunders to put the entire ethics process on trial and cast serious doubt about the case against her.
Waters's tactic stands in stark contrast to the way Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) handled the case against him. Waters has been on offense since an investigative subcommittee charged her with three ethics violations in July.
by Larry Margasak
A recently discovered e-mail, which forced postponement of Rep. Maxine Waters' ethics trial, appears to bring the House ethics committee no closer to proving she tried to obtain a U.S. bailout — during the financial crisis — for a bank where her husband owns stock.
Waters, a California Democrat and a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, was to go on trial Monday before an ethics panel of eight congressional colleagues. She has maintained her innocence, and has been demanding for months that the trial be held.