The campaign of Representative Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) will pay a $68,000 civil fine after an investigation by the Federal Election Commission found that it violated several campaign finance laws.

Citizens for Waters, the progressive congresswoman’s 2020 reelection campaign committee, is accused of “failing to accurately report receipts and disbursements in calendar year 2020,” “knowingly accepting excessive contributions,” and “making prohibited cash disbursements,” according to FEC documents released Friday and first reported on by Open Secrets.

The group is said to have accepted excessive campaign contributions from seven people; the amount over the legal limit totaled $19,000 in 2019 and 2020. The maximum legal individual contribution is $2,800.

The committee offloaded the excessive donations in an “untimely” manner, according to the FEC.

The federal commission also accuses the Waters campaign of making four prohibited cash disbursements, each in excess of $100, for a total of $7,000.

Waters’s campaign committee “contends that it retained legal counsel to provide advice and guidance to the treasurer and implemented procedures to ensure the disbursements comply with the requirements of the Act.”

An attorney for the campaign, Leilani Beaver, told the FEC last year that the campaign finance violations were “errors” and not “willful or purposeful.”

Now, Waters’s committee has agreed to pay the $68,000 fine and to “send its treasurer to a Commission-sponsored training program for political committees within one year of the effective date of this Agreement.”

“Respondent shall submit evidence of the required registration and attendance at such event to the Commission,” an FEC document said.

Waters, who has served in Congress since 1991, is no stranger to controversies surrounding financial ethics.

She previously landed in hot water for arranging to have her daughter work on her campaign as a slate mailer, which involves outside campaigns paying Waters’s campaign to appear on endorsement mailers sent out to constituents in the Los Angeles area. The setup is popular in California politics but uncommon at the federal level.

Since the start of that arrangement in 2004, Karen Waters has received more than $1.2 million in payments from her mother’s campaign.

In 2010, Waters was formally accused of violating conflict of interest rules by the House Ethics Committee, though the committee ultimately dismissed the case. Still, Waters’s chief of staff was reprimanded at the time.

And in 2021, Waters’s campaign committee was accused by the National Legal Policy Center of accepting an illegal campaign contribution during her 2018 reelection campaign, though the FEC dismissed that complaint.