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OneUnited Bank Scandal
• 02/11/2019 12:00 AM
• Source: AAN
John Phelan via Wikipedia Commons
Under the guise that Rep. Waters wanted to help out African American banks in California, the congresswoman saved some of the valuable stocks her family was holding. She asked then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson to hold a meeting with minority-owned banks back in 2008. The only bank that had representatives in attendance was OneUnited, the same bank that Rep. Waters had hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock in. Waters' Chief of Staff and grandson Mikael Moore is also in attendance.
The bank used the meeting to demand a government bailout money with taxpayer money. They were denied.
In December of that year, Waters set up another meeting for OneUnited this time demanding that the government ensure that minority-owned banks get some of the bank bailout money. This time OneUnited got their bailout funds, and Rep. Waters' persistence secured the value of her stocks.

Travel Disclosure
• 02/11/2019
• by: AAN Staff
• By Jules Meulemans via Wikimedia Commons
In May of 2011, Maxine Waters was reported as having filed several travel disclosure forms almost a year late. Congressional rules require reports be submitted within 14 days after returning from a trip paid for by a private source. Late filings are not rare, but Waters’ congressional office had 14 by this point.
In the Street
• 02/11/2019
• by: AAN Staff
You may remember that Maxine Waters called for the harassment of Trump administration officials and subsequently faced withering criticism from the righ
The Farrakhan Connection
• 02/11/2019
• by: AAN Staff
Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons
Maxine Waters has had a long connection with anti-semite Louis Farrakhan, garnering plenty of negative attention from Jewish advocacy groups and right-wing outlets.

The Republican Jewish Coalition called for her resignation in early 2018 because photos of Waters and Farrakhan that had resurfaced.
Cuban Friends
• 02/11/2019
• by: AAN Staff -Wikimedia Commons
Maxine Waters has long shared her support for the Castro regime while criticizing US involvement to restore Democracy to the beleaguered island nation. In 1998, Waters wrote to Castro referring to the 1960s and 1970s as a “sad and shameful chapter of our history.” In the same letter, Waters thanked Castro for helping those who had to “flee political persecution.”

That is allegedly a reference to convicted terrorist Assata Shakur, who fled the United States and sought refuge in Cuba after being charged in the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper.

Later, Waters penned an open letter to Castro asking him not to extradite Shakur.

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