rssHouse Panel Finds Rangel Violated Ethics Rules
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 5:32 pm
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A House investigative panel has charged Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) with multiple ethics violations, reports The Associated Press. The case will now be sent to another ethics panel that will try the violations. The AP adds:
Sources said the committee and Rangel’s attorney attempted unsuccessfully to negotiate a settlement to end the case. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private discussions. A settlement would have required Rangel to agree that he violated ethics rules.
Rangel announced he was running for re-election in June, despite losing his chairmanship in March because of ethics allegations that he accepted corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean, did not report rental income on a Dominican villa and used several rent-stabilized apartments in Manhattan. Nevertheless, he is still extremely popular in his Upper Manhattan district, routinely winning elections with around 90 percent of the vote. Nationally, Republicans view him as a symbol of corruption, and this widely circulated picture of him on a beach in the Dominican Republic only reinforces that perception.
Rangel faces several primary challengers, including — in an ironic twist — State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, whose father was defeated in the Democratic primary in 1970 by Rangel because of an ethics scandal.
Rangel compared himself to Muhammad Ali to The New York Times in June, saying, “This is not the time to be hanging up the gloves.” But just as Republican congressional scandals hurt the party in 2006, Rangel’s charges could have the same effect come November.
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Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 9:59 pm
“The case could end with a simple admonishment of Mr. Rangel, which is the most common action by the Standards Committee” This is JUST ONE MORE example of why we the people need to kick the GOBs on both isles out on their collective a s s e s in November. The liars, er lawyers keep proclaiming innocence for this type activity while the evidence says we must believe them or our lying eyes!
Scum. Pure scum in DC – and it crosses both parties and all races. Kick them all out.
They should be so lucky if that's all that happened. Really, some should be in prison. I'm sure Rangel just HATES being told tsk,tsk,tsk * wink* *wink* as he keeps the ill-gotten gains and retires to the Dominican with his Fed Gov retirement and $$$$ intact.
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