Maxine Waters Dig (continued)

Waters’s Corruption

For a number of years, Waters’ daughter Karen has been in charge of a “slate mailer” operation for Waters’ federal campaign committee, Citizens for Waters (CfW), where other political candidates pay CfW to endorse them in its mailers. These payments to CfW have ranged from as little as $250 for a school board candidate, to tens of thousands of dollars for higher-profile candidates, to $171,000 for a wealthy California businessman who ran for elected office. (One of the more prominent individuals to appear on Waters’s endorsement mailers was Kamala Harris, who in 2010, when she was running for California attorney general, paid $28,000 to Waters’ campaign committee for that privilege. When Harris ran for the Senate in 2016, she gave CfW another $30,000 in order to appear in the mailers.) When Karen is paid the money that she is owed, she will have pocketed around $750,000 for running the mailers for the campaign since 2006." https://freebeacon.com/politics/maxine-waters-slated-pay-daughter-another-108k-campaign-funds-lucrative-operation/

In 2005/2006, the left-leaning organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Maxine Waters as one of the 13 “Most Corrupt Members of Congress.” The CREW report cited a December 2004 Los Angeles Times investigation disclosing how three of Waters’ closest relatives had made more than $1 million during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates, and issue organizations that Waters had helped. One of these relatives was Waters’ aforementioned daughter Karen, who not only charged candidates for space on her mother’s “slate mailer,” but also received payments from a nonprofit organization which she and the congresswoman had established. In this report Waters entire family is implicated in the crimes, they each had a role to play in the corruption. Read the entire report here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060616035849

/http:/www.beyonddelay.org:80/Beyond_DeLay_Report_Final_2.pdf (please download and archive before it disappears)

2009 and 2011, Waters appears on this list again, when she used her position as a senior member of Congress and member of the House Financial Services Committee to prevail upon Treasury officials to meet with OneUnited Bank. She never disclosed that her husband held stock in the bank. Full report here:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20022703/Waters%2C%20Maxine.pdf (please download and and archive before it disappears)

On August 2, 2010, the House Ethics Committee filed three charges against Waters, alleging that she had used her influence to gain special favors (from the federal government) for OneUnited. In September 2012, the House Ethics Committee issued a report clearing Waters of all ethics charges related to allegations that she had tried to secure federal bailout money for OneUnited during the 2008 financial crisis. Report here:

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/250937-ethics-set-to-clear-rep-maxine-waters-of-ethics-charges

The Ethics Committee did rule, however, that Waters’ grandson and chief of staff Mikael Moore had somehow proceeded, without the congresswoman’s knowledge or approval, to lobby for special treatment for OneUnited. Washington Examiner report here:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/maxine-waters-isnt-in-any-position-to-lecture-on-ethics/article/2617991

According to Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, California Democratic congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a friend of Waters, helped delay Waters’s trial before the House Ethics Committee by stalling subpoenas and improperly firing two lawyers who were working on the investigation. Report here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/04/maxine-waters-democrats-resistance-leader-corrupt-california-congresswoman/

In November 2010, _The Washington Times _reported: “A lobbyist known as one of California’s most successful power brokers while serving as a legislative leader in that state paid Waters’ husband $15,000 in consulting fees at a time she was co-sponsoring legislation. Four years earlier, in 2006, an IRS report had declared such “real-estate finance businesses” to be a “scam.” Report here: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/7/lobbyist-paid-15k-to-maxine-waters-husband/

Mueller, Comey, and the Deep State Rescue of Sandy Berger

In April 2005, a Republican-led Department of Justice did something quite unusual. After catching a Democratic operative stealing and destroying highly relevant classified documents, the DoJ punished him as though he had stolen the Snickers bars from the office vending machine. On October 28, 2005, another curious event took place in those same halls of justice: an allegedly Republican special prosecutor indicted a White House advisor of his own party for a series of process crimes unrelated to the original intent of his investigation.

As will become clear, this double injustice not only foreshadowed future injustices, but it also served as a practice run of sorts for the players involved. Several of these players would come center stage once again in the long-running political drama that debuted in 2016.

The Democratic operative on that barely warm seat in 2005 was former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, since deceased. The attorney general at the time, the feckless Alberto Gonzales, had been on the job less than two months when the Berger deal went down. Gonzales’s deputy attorney general, James Comey, however, had been on the job for more than a year. It was under Comey’s supervision that the DoJ reviewed the case against Berger. It was a doozy. In the nerviest of his criminal acts, Berger stole highly classified documents and stashed them under a trailer at a construction site during a break. He retrieved the documents at the end of the day and admittedly used scissors to cut them into little pieces before throwing them away. He then lied to investigators about what he had done. As punishment, Comey and crew recommended a $10,000 fine for Berger and a three-year loss of top-level security clearance. That, incredibly, was it. Oh, yes, as part of the package, the FBI and/or DoJ was to give Berger a lie detector test. Neither agency bothered.

>>2899349

He definitely has some splaining to do. He's in this just as deep as the others.

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