Day: March 12, 2009

Maxine Waters and the $50 Million Bailout

The LA Times reports that Rep. Maxine Waters apparently has family connections to a bank that received $50 million in bailout funds.  [She] requested the September meeting on behalf of executives at OneUnited, one of the nation’s largest black-owned banks. Ms. [Waters’] husband, Sidney Williams, had served on the bank’s board of directors until early […]

Senate Campaign Data Leak?

Norm Coleman’s Senate campaign apparently had a data breach, according to this report. The revelation came after a group called Wikileaks e-mailed some Coleman supporters Tuesday night to suggest that their credit card information was floating around the Internet. Wikileaks casts itself as an outlet for “untraceable mass document leaking and analysis,” with a focus […]