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WHOOPS: Maxine Waters Hit With FEC Complaint Over Fundraising Letters

Emily Zanotti

The consummate leader of the anti-Trump “resistance,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), could soon be facing questions about how her campaign raises money, and why her fundraising operation cuts so many checks to her daughter.

A “government watchdog” filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in July, alleging that Waters and her campaign broke campaign finance laws when her campaign raised money through a “slate mailer,” and then paid Waters’ daughter’s consulting firm, Progressive Connections, $750,000 from the proceeds.

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