# Maxine Waters Investigation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-investigation/593790>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 23, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-investigation/593790 "2011-08-23T15:38:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-investigation/593790/1 "2011-08-23T15:38:02Z")

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Whatever happened to the House panel investigating allegations of impropriety involving Maxine Waters and her husband?

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**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-investigation/593790/2 "2011-08-23T15:50:29Z")

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A Google News search brings up what looks like a complete clusterfuffle. So far as I can tell, allegations surfaced in [July](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59225.html) that federal prosecutors had shared confidential information about the Waters and Rangel cases with Republicans on the committee. Earlier this month the case was sent to [an external legal reviewer](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-ethics-punts-waterss-ethics-case-to-outside-counsel/2011/07/29/gIQA7rbg4I_story.html) tasked with figuring out whether the case is salvageable or whether it’s sufficiently tainted that it should be dismissed. This is apparently all against a backdrop of serious partisan squabbling on the committee itself.

And yet for some reason Americans don’t hold their elected representatives in high esteem.