TRICKY CHARLIE'S CARIB 'HIDEAWAY'(SHADY FILINGS ON BEACH-VILLA RENTAL INCOME; Charlie Rangel, D-NY)

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.

The powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman, a Democrat, owns "casita" No. 412 on the Caribbean Sea at the Punta Cana Hotel, on the lush eastern tip of the country, where he is affectionately known as "el senador."

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.

Rangel is no naive college kid. He certainly must know who the Workers World Party is, and what they represent. They've been around for decades (since 1958, according to wikipedia). And they are based in Manhattan, as is Rangel.

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

There apparently was some kind of problem with the youtube link I just posted. Here it is again. Hopefully, this time it will work.

Rangel's self-defense regarding the 4-apartments scandal

Harlem is my home

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?

In June 1970 he was defeated in the Democratic primary by
Charles B. Rangel , who has represented the area ever since.

Replacing a corrupt, but suave, Adam Clayton Powell with a
goofy-sounding AND corrupt lump like Charlie Rangel.

Talk about a downgrade!!!

I've heard "once a Marine, always a Marine".
But as a never-served civilian, I suspect the rank-and-file
of the USMC would love to make an exception for Rep. Rangel.

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