It May not Work in Politics
Representative Maxine Waters of D-California was charged with an unspecified ethical violation which rooted from a requested meeting with then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. “After the meeting, the Massachusetts bank received $12 million in taxpayer aid from the $700 billion Wall Street bailout” (Jaffe, 2010). House Ethics Committee suspected Waters, who was believed to benefit from the transaction and from the meeting with Paulson, a cabinet official. The committee said that having a meeting with a cabinet official is not something to be easily done by a state representative. However, Waters defended that the meeting was called due to an ...
