Posted on 08/31/2008 6:36:03 AM PDT by Stoat
For 20 years, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel has owned a beachfront villa in a sun-drenched Dominican Republic resort, yet has only sporadically declared income on the property in federal filings.
While the villa was rented to paying guests for the past two years, for instance, Rangel reported no income from it in 2006 and 2007, The Post has learned. As a congressman, failure to fully list all income and investments can result in civil penalties or criminal charges.
His three-bedroom, three-bath villa, which can accommodate three couples, is rented for between $500 in the low season to $1,100 a night in the busiest tourist season and is one of the resort's most popular, managers and staff say.
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SLEEPING BOOTY: Charles Rangel dozed on the beach at the Punta Cana Resort, where he owns and rents out a villa. He was squeezing in some vacation time before attending the Democratic convention, where he appeared with Hillary Clinton .
that’s phunny!
looks like a beached whale.
Clear your throat, Charlie.
DEMOCRAT CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
Rangel rents N.Y. apartments at bargain rates
Note to his district: ROTF! You folks sure can pick 'em....
yo’ think he’s got sleep apnea?
Charlie's Personal Financial Disclosure Forms
....the ones he files as a member of the House.
Interesting. I wonder if he declared those free airline trips as income on his federal tax return? Oh, that’s right, Harry Reid is on record as saying that federal income taxes are “voluntary” in the US.
he’s doing it for the children dontcha know.
George Orwell
Since the Dems have been attacking John McCain because he didn't instantly recall the entire contents of his investment portfolio as being 'out of touch with mainstream America' I'm wondering if they will similarly upbraid Charlie for being out of touch with his Harlem constituency?
(I don't think that I will be holding my breath waiting for that)
He’s safer there asleep than screwing us in D.C.!
Note that the Dominican Republic North (Washington Hts, NY) is in his district.
Photo left: Ramsey Clark(l) and Lynne Stewart(r).
Photo right: DemonRat Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel.
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"On July 9 (1994), Workers World Party Chairperson Sam Marcy sent the following statement to Comrade Kim Jong Il, the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea and the State Funeral Committee of President Kim Il Sung.":
"Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il ...
The National Committee of Workers World Party extends our deepest condolences on the passing of the great leader of the Korean people, Comrade President Kim Il Sung.
Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted his whole life to the Korean people's struggle for national self-determination and the international working-class struggle for socialist emancipation. With his leadership, the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine.
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With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party":
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Here is a direct link to the set of photos showing Ramsey Clark, Lynne Stewart and current democrat chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel, all at the Workers World Party/Troops Out Now event on March 19, 2005. Again, the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war:
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html
no...they don’t care..but the American people will.
C’mon! “Taxes? Only the little people pay taxes!” Leona Helmsley... or was the Charlie Rangel?
You forgot the footnote...i.e., "Applies to Republicans only. Democratic congresspersons are exempt, because they said so".
Rangel will not answer to this, nor will he be seriously called out on it.
If it were a republican, it would be plastered all over the MSM.
As a dim, Rangel can and will do as he damn well pleases and if caught will scream "racist" and "partisan political attacks" or some other equally disgusting rant.
I *think* it put him in prison.
The NY Times will begin its demand that Rangel be investigated by the House ethics committee any time now. Yep, any time now.
Come on man, you gots to know our vaunted Dept. of Justice won’t go after this. Rangel is a black man and a politician.
He is imune from prosecution from crimes he’s committed just like Al Sharpton.
adam clayton powell
Ultimately, Powell used up his political currency. Members of the House, happy to find a reason to silence him, expelled him for pocketing congressional employment paychecks to his wife, and for taking junkets abroad with female staffers. The fighter in him took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. He won back his seat. Even then, he was docked $25,000 to repay the illegal kickback. But the people of Harlem grew tired of Powell's unbelievable record of roll call absences and endless litigations. In 1970, they finally voted him out. Two years later, he died of prostate cancer at the age of 63.
In January 1967, following allegations that Powell had misappropriated Committee funds for his personal use and other corruption allegations, the House Democratic Caucus stripped Powell of his committee chairmanship. The full House refused to seat him until completion of an investigation by the Judiciary Committee. In March the House voted 307 to 116 to exclude him. Powell won the special election in April to fill the vacancy caused by his exclusion, but did not take his seat.
By the mid-1960s Powell was being increasingly criticized for mismanagement of the committee budget, taking trips abroad at public expense, including travel to his retreat on the Bahamian isle of Bimini, and missing sittings of his committee. He was also under fire in his district, where his refusal to pay a slander judgment made him subject to arrest. He spent increasing amounts of time in Florida and displayed his wealth more than was wise for a Congressman representing a poor district. In June 1970 he was defeated in the Democratic primary by Charles B. Rangel , who has represented the area ever since. Powell failed to get on the ballot for the November election as an independent. He resigned as minister at the Abyssinian Baptist Church and moved to Bimini.
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I was just beginning a year-long vacation in a beautiful Asian resort area when much of Mr. Powell's BS came to light.
I recall later, when he died, my father remarked upon it, about how the "damn democrats" (his words) always made their rogues into heroes upon their death, even though the world knew with certainty exactly what dirt bags they were.
I was not real politically conscious in those days, but I do recall the hypocrisy evident in the coverage of his escapades, even that long ago.
I hear they're 2-3 years away from demanding an investigation into his ties to the Stalinist Workers World Party, too! :)
“yep, any time now.”
you said it. (when it comes to liberal democrats...er, communists, one gets the original meaning of snails’ pace.)
IMHO
Thanks, bfl
Someone call Green Peace! We have a beached whal.....oh....neveer mind.
BTTT.
The only apartment they made him give up was the one he was using for a campaign office. He kept the other three.
Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard. It’s a block away from Malcolm X Boulevard.
Charlie sure seems comfortable and happy among that violent, anti-American crowd. Thanks for the great posts, as always.
If he was an honest man, I would say more power to him, own as many apartments and anything else that you want. But since he continually proves himself as being despicably corrupt, any assets that he owns have to be viewed suspiciously.
But, it appears that his constituency in Harlem simply don't care....they love him to pieces and keep reelecting him.....probably rationalizing it all as 'the white man is only trying to keep him down' or some similar idiocy.
It's precisely because of people like Rangel that millions of black Americans remain in poverty......but they keep electing corrupt slimeballs like Rangel and so they will never, ever see their lives get better. So very sad.
And he would be hounded out of office not only by the Press but by the Republicans as well...his political career would be over and he would end up taking that last, lonely walk on a deserted stretch of beach with a bottle of brandy in one hand and his favorite revolver in the other....and he would do the last remaining honorable thing.
But because he's a Dem, it's just another day at the office.
Rangel rents N.Y. apartments at bargain rates
Note to his district: ROTF! You folks sure can pick 'em....
I suppose that his regular trips out to his Dominican Republic pad allow him to relax enough so that he can sleep at nights.....it would take a whole lot more than that for me.
Considering that all of his friends and acquaintances are probably also crooks to varying degrees, he most likely sees nothing at all wrong in anything he does....it's just how things are to him.
I guess if you swim in a sewer every day, effluvia tends to start looking normal and unremarkable.
Thanks for the great posts and links :-)
Well, he doesn’t own them. They are regulated apartments that have a lower-than-market rent and they are in great demand by people who really need them.
“They are regulated apartments that have a lower-than-market rent and they are in great demand by people who really need them.”
People willing to pay a bride or kickback to get them?
New York City's situation is a bit different from the rest of the country. We have a lot of rich people and then a huge service sector that can't afford Manhattan rents. They have to live out in the far reaches of the boroughs to be able to afford the rent, usually. The lucky ones get stabilized apartments.
Rangel then enlisted in the United States Army, and served from 1948 to 1952. During the Korean War, he was a Sergeant in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the 2nd Infantry Division. In late November 1950, this unit was caught up in heavy fighting in North Korea as part of the U.N. forces retreat from the Yalu River. In the Battle of Kunu-Ri, Rangel led some 40 men from his unit, during three days of freezing weather, out of a Chinese Army encirclement; nearly half of the battalion was killed in the overall battle.[7] Rangel was awarded a Purple Heart for a shrapnel wound to his foot and the Bronze Star with Valor for his actions in the face of death.
Charlie was my Congressman. I'd love to know what he's thinking when he comes across Korean commie agitprop.
bump
Charlie Rangel’s Budget Travel
Castro puts him up.
By Geoffrey Gray Published Jun 6, 2006
Representative Charlie Rangel has been scrambling to explain away inconsistencies surrounding a mission he and other New York power brokers took to meet with Fidel Castro. According to forms Rangel filed with House overseers back in 2002, he claimed he and his family took a $5,700, four-day trip to Havana on the dime of an obscure Minneapolis-based environmental group, the Sian Ka’an Conservation Foundation, for “fact finding” about endangered birds. But the Center for Public Integrity, which spent nine months preparing for an upcoming report by combing through more than 25,000 travel forms filed by lawmakers, discovered some major missing info: Rangel now says the government of Cuba paid for their stay at the posh Melia Cohiba hotel, while Gristedes-supermarket king and mayoral aspirant John Catsimatidis flew Rangel and his wife, his son, and several others—including former mayor David Dinkins and limo magnate/bankruptcy con/Bill Clinton pardonee William Fugazy—to Havana on his private 727. Rangel says it was an administrative error. “There’s no reason to hide the damn thing,” he says, adding that he’s met Castro a half dozen times on Cuba’s dime.
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/17214/
YouTube: Charlie Rangell Shows How Crazy He Is
"Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangell outlines his pro-Castro, anti-Israel views live on television for all to see. Have to see it to believe it."
[the part on Castro is about midway through video]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBNaTMyGyGY
YouTube: Charlie Rangell Shows How Crazy He Is
"Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangell outlines his pro-Castro, anti-Israel views live on television for all to see. Have to see it to believe it."
[the part on Castro is about midway through video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBNaTMyGyGY
Thanks for the ping!
Lots of good info here. Thanks.
What is described as below market rent is the protection afforded by the New York rent control law to residents like myself from the escalation in market price that is pressing so many of us to leave a community we can no longer afford.
Which breakfast table does Rangel sit down at in the morning?
One of those in Harlem? One in his villa? One in Washington, DC?
Does he have any other homes?
Wow!!! lol!
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