Posted on 11/07/2010 6:33:28 PM PST by jazusamo
A lobbyist known as one of California's most successful power brokers while serving as a legislative leader in that state paid Rep. Maxine Waters' husband $15,000 in consulting fees at a time she was co-sponsoring legislation that would help save the real-estate finance business of one of the lobbyist's best-paying clients, records show.
Ms. Waters' husband, Sidney Williams, a former pro football player and ambassador to the Bahamas, was a paid consultant on a Los Angeles lobbying project for Mike Roos, who served with Ms. Waters in the California State Assembly. During Mr. Roos' 14-year tenure, he held the posts of majority floor leader and speaker pro tempore.
In 2007, Mr. Roos expanded his successful California lobbying business to Washington, D.C., after Democrats took control of the House and Ms. Waters became chairman of the House Financial Services housing and community opportunity subcommittee, where she played a key role in housing legislation.
Mr. Roos sought her assistance for a California client that specialized in homeownership and asset development.
According to federal lobbying records, Mr. Roos was paid $430,000 by the Nehemiah Corp. of America, a Sacramento, Calif.-based nonprofit that acted as a middleman to help sellers finance down payments for homebuyers to qualify for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). He lobbied members of Congress and federal agencies on behalf of the firm.
One of those lobbied was Ms. Waters, a California Democrat and key Nehemiah ally, who held a hearing on down-payment assistance in June 2007 and persuaded federal housing officials to delay for 30 days efforts to impose a ban on the program. She also co-sponsored legislation in 2008 and 2009 that would have kept Nehemiah's assistance program viable.
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She’s a Dem, so its okay
I so hope she and Rangle go down hard!
Probably it works out that way, but Maxine is overdue for a legal beating.
We all hope shae and rangel go down hard, but they have a lot going for them in the form of the race card.If we had a real Justice Department and a real ethics Committee in Congress they would be history, but I doubt they even get a reprimand.
From the tape Joe Miller released on Huckabee this weekend it sounds to me this is the sort of thing Lisa Murkowski does in Alaska through her position on the Appropriations Committee. My guess is this is so common that nothing will happen to Waters because no one in DC wants light shown on this.
Amen! She and Charlie have been getting away with this type corruption for years.
The woman got re-elected.
What do you want me to say?
Issa said he was going to crank up some investigations. This is the kind of thing he should go after. Also, a recent post showed that Boxer was up to her short ass in reestablishing a defunct Indian tribe of a very tenuous tribal connection so that her son could make a ton on land he bought around the “reservation” and built a casino. That is the kind of crap the Democrats do all the time while accusing the Republicans of the same. They need to be investigated.
I couldn't agree more and there are many of these by the Rats, it's going to take quite some time to investigate them.
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