Politics | Maxine Waters Waters Vows to Fight Ethics Charges Congresswoman says she'll prove innocence at trial By Kevin Spak Posted Aug 3, 2010 10:13 AM CDT Copied Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is seen on Capitol Hill in this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) Maxine Waters isn’t rolling over for the House Ethics Committee. “The case against me has no merit,” the Los Angeles Democrat declared in a statement, promising to prove as much at trial. “I don’t think she’s going to be very diplomatic about this,” a source close to Waters tells Politico. “She’s going to call them out in very stark terms.” The case against Waters revolves around a meeting she arranged between Treasury officials, a banking association, and a bank that her husband holds stock in. The committee says it has “substantial reason to believe” Waters violated ethics rules in setting the meeting up. The potential back-to-back trials of Waters and Charles Rangel could ignite long-standing tensions between the ethics committee and the Congressional Black Caucus, which believes that its members are disproportionately investigated. Read These Next We knew Letterman would pipe up about Colbert eventually. 11 people hurt in a "brutal act of violence" in Michigan. A parent's nightmare, in a white cardboard box. The sheriff says he's never seen a worse case of child sex abuse. Report an error