Grab Your Checkbooks: It’s the Maxine Waters Legal Defense Fund

“Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has established a legal defense fund to pay for any expenses associated with her full-throttled battle against ethics charges that she used her position to help a bank in which her husband owned stock.

“Waters filed paperwork with the ethics committee to form the fund in late August. Her office did not comment about whether she had already held fundraisers to help fill the fund’s coffers or has events planned.”

Read more: (Susan Crabtree, “Rep. Waters Forms Legal Defense Fund to Wage Fight Against Ethics Charges,” The Hill, 09/03/10)