Report: Rep. Maxine Waters Helped Steer Bailout Funds to Bank With Family Ties; I'm sure dems will be outraged over her wanting the chair seat back. Remember they said they would fight corruption. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., helped steered millions of dollars in bailout funds to a bank on whose board her husband served, the New York Times reported Thursday. ' Who had Maxine Waters Head of Finace comittee again'; ' Her husband owns a bank, and has been bailed out by Max before.