{"id":15349,"date":"2025-10-01T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=15349"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:41:07","slug":"waters-ordered-to-pay-massive-fine-for-violating-campaign-finance-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=15349","title":{"rendered":"Waters Ordered To Pay Massive Fine For Violating Campaign Finance Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

The campaign of progressive California Rep. Maxine Waters has agreed to pay a $68,000 fine after an investigation revealed that it broke many election regulations.<\/p>\n

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The Federal Election Commission (FEC)\u00a0stated<\/a>\u00a0in a batch of documents that the longtime House lawmaker\u2019s 2020 campaign group, Citizens for Waters, violated many campaign finance regulations.<\/p>\n

The FEC accused Citizens for Waters of \u201cfailing to accurately report receipts and disbursements in calendar year 2020,\u201d \u201cknowingly accepting excessive contributions,\u201d and \u201cmaking prohibited cash disbursements,\u201d according to one document that appears to be a legally binding agreement that allows both parties to avoid court.<\/p>\n

Waters\u2019 committee agreed to pay the civil fine as well as \u201csend its treasurer to a Commission-sponsored training program for political committees within one year of the effective date of this Agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cRespondent shall submit evidence of the required registration and attendance at such event to the Commission,\u201d the document said.<\/p>\n

According to the inquiry, Citizens for Waters took inappropriate campaign contributions from seven persons totaling $19,000 in 2019 and 2020, even though the maximum allowed individual contribution is $2,800.<\/p>\n

The committee offloaded those excessive donations, albeit in an \u201cuntimely\u201d fashion, the document said.<\/p>\n

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Waters\u2019 campaign committee also \u201cmade four prohibited cash disbursements that were each in excess of $100, totaling $7,000,\u201d the FEC said.<\/p>\n

The campaign committee \u201ccontends that it retained legal counsel to provide advice and guidance to the treasurer and implemented procedures to ensure the disbursements comply with the requirements of the Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leilani Beaver, Citizens for Waters\u2019 attorney, wrote to the FEC last year, claiming that the campaign financing infractions were \u201cerrors\u201d that \u201cwere not willful or purposeful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Waters, the leading Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, has been in Congress since 1991.<\/p>\n

OpenSecrets was the first to report the fresh movements in the inquiry.<\/p>\n

Waters has previously drawn public attention for a very similar thing.<\/p>\n

In 2023, a Fox News Digital investigation discovered that Waters\u2019 campaign paid her daughter $192,300 for a \u201cslate mailer\u201d operation between January 2021 and December 2022.<\/p>\n

Waters reportedly paid her daughter a single dollar out of thousands for campaign labor.<\/p>\n

The FEC dismissed a charge alleging Waters\u2019 campaign accepted improper campaign donations in 2018 by a 5-1 vote.<\/p>\n

Waters previously made headlines when she made a series of nasty comments about First Lady Melania Trump.<\/p>\n

Waters called on President Donald Trump to investigate and potentially deport First Lady Melania Trump during an anti-DOGE protest in Los Angeles last weekend.<\/p>\n

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Clips of the rant went viral as Waters suggested that the first lady\u2019s citizenship status- she\u2019s been a U.S. citizen since 2006- should be scrutinized as a means of pushing back on the president\u2019s executive order eliminating birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he [Trump] talks about birthright, and he\u2019s going to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those who are born here, even if the parents are undocumented, they have a right to stay in America. If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania,\u201d Waters was seen saying from the stage of a rally in Los Angeles, per a number of videos posted online.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look,\u201d the aged congresswoman continued.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, she\u00a0erupted<\/a>\u00a0in outrage and screeched her disapproval of both Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk at an event in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

At a rally held by Democratic lawmakers protesting Musk\u2019s access to information at the Treasury Department, Waters accused him of overstepping his boundaries without the consent of voters during her speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have got to tell Elon Musk that nobody elected your ass. Nobody told you you could get all of our private information. Nobody told you you could be in charge of the payments of this country,\u201d Waters yelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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