Maxine Waters Faces FEC Heat Over Campaign Finance Violations and Daughter’s Controversial Payments
Progressive Representative Maxine Waters of California is facing scrutiny from the Federal Election Commission over alleged violations related to her 2020 campaign finances. The FEC found that Waters’s campaign accepted more than $19,000 in excessive contributions and made $7,000 in cash payments to volunteers, violating established regulations. In a recent agreement with the FEC, the Waters campaign accepted a $68,000 fine. The violations were attributed to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which made traditional payment methods more difficult for her canvassing team. An attorney representing the campaign stated that the errors were largely unintentional … Read more