This wasn't expected!
Posted on 11/18/2010 3:51:09 PM PST by Panzerlied
The House ethics committee has recommended censure for Representative Charles B. Rangel for ethics violations. It was the committee’s counsel, R. Blake Chisam, who acted as prosecutor in the case, who recommended that Mr. Rangel be censured, a stronger punishment than a reprimand but well short of expulsion. Shortly before the committee of five Democrats and five Republicans began deliberations, Mr. Rangel, his voice cracking, pleaded for his colleagues to keep in mind that whatever his misdeeds, he was not corrupt. Mr. Rangel, 80, a Democrat who has represented Harlem since 1970, was found guilty on Tuesday of 11 breaches of ethics stemming from failing to pay taxes on rental income from a Dominican villa, failing to file financial disclosure forms, using a rent-stabilized residential apartment as a campaign office, and raising charitable donations from companies with business before the House Ways and Means Committee, of which he was the chairman.
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Who are the Republicans on that committee?
What does the LAW recommend?
More than a normal human being could experience and still survive!
It's inhuman what these congress critters may have to go through while doing the peoples business.
I'd run for office myself if it weren't for the possibility of the hellish censure facing me head on!
Wow, that’ll show him! Next come the really nasty e-mails!
He’s in trouble now!
They are going to give him a stern talking to.
This is Democrap justice.
If it was a Republican, he'd be on a chain gang by now.
BFD. Make him wear a dunce cap on TV, otherwise to sitting in the corner with his nose to the wall.
-—> be sitting....
Charlie if you were white the committee would have seen the light and told you, despite the fact you are such a personnel delight, that flight into the night was the only way to make your plight right by getting permanently out of sight.
Honor-Among-Thieves Alert.
So, were they too soft on Charles B. Rangel or too harsh on James Traficant? Same crime, same jury, different result.
http://www.accountingweb.com/item/87150#
James Traficante was white, so they threw the book at him. Rangel is black, so he understandably gets a mild slap on the wrist. What a country!
How does embezzling $600,000 from a PAC that Charlie controls fall under ‘Censure” for a punishment???
I would be in jail for years if I did that.
Now that takes the cake!
About as useless as a “strongly worded” letter from the UN.
course, according to Sheila Jackson Lee...it’s “sensor”
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