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charges  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) took her battle
against ethics charges to the airwaves Thursday night,
proclaiming her innocence on a Los Angeles radio show and
demanding that the details of the case against her be made
public  “Democracy demands fairness,” the 10-term congresswoman
said in her first interview since she learned last week that she
was the subject of a Congressional Ethics Committee
investigation into her actions involving a bank with ties to her
husband that received federal bailout funds.  “I have 30 years
in the business,” Waters said, “and I think it’s only fair that
I be given a chance to be heard.”  A report released by the
Office of Congressional Ethics this week said there is
"substantial reason" to believe Waters may have violated House
ethics rules in arranging a meeting between Treasury Department
officials and representatives of OneUnited bank, wher