- Maxine Waters, a Democratic representative from California, paid her daughter Karen Waters $81,650 in campaign funds in the last fiscal year
- The payments were broken down into 12 installments from October 23, 2020 to June 17, 2021 with categories like 'slate mailer management' fees
- Karen has worked on Waters' campaigns for decades organizing slate mailers listing candidates and policies and advising voters who to elect
- She has earned $1.1 million for her work since 2003
- Waters has previously been criticized for using her campaign funds to pay her family members