Maxine Waters

Waters Stages A Defense, Weeks Before Ethics Trial

Evan McMorris-Santoro and Rachel Slajda | August 13, 2010, 1:38PM

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) held a long press conference in D.C. today, giving what amounted to a lengthy defense several weeks before the House ethics committee will be able to try her on three alleged violations.

Waters -- accused of improperly helping a bank, OneUnited, that her husband held stock in -- has maintained that she broke no House rules.

At today's press conference, Waters again explained her version of events: she set up a meeting between the National Bankers Association, a minority- and women-owned bank group, and Treasury officials in order to help minority-owned banks.

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Topics: California, Congressional Black Caucus, Ethics, House Ethics Committee, Maxine Waters, OneUnited