Lawyers for California Rep. Maxine Waters are fighting an attempt by investigators to gather more evidence now that three formal ethics charges have been filed against her.
Waters, a Democrat, has been charged with improperly seeking government help in 2008 for a minority-owned bank in which her husband owned stock. The bank received $12 million in federal funds later that year from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Waters has denied wrongdoing.
Waters’s lawyers, Stanley Brand and Andrew Herman, have written to the House ethics committee complaining that the panel is still investigating her after filing formal ethics charges, when House rules specify that charges should be filed after a probe is completed.
“This rush to judgment (and subsequent efforts to bolster its case) casts doubt on the sufficiency of the investigation,’’ the lawyers wrote.
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