Posted on 12/11/2008 6:38:49 AM PST by Zakeet
The expanded probe will examine whether Rangel helped preserve a lucrative tax break that benefited an oil-drilling company last year, while its chief executive was pledging $1 million to a college center named in the congressman's honor.
The ethics committee also is looking at Rangel's use of congressional stationery to ask foundations to support the school project; using four rent-stabilized apartments in a Harlem apartment building; and not reporting or paying taxes on $75,000 in rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic.
Hey Nancy, made any head way on that “culture of corruption” thing?
I see you did do something about lowing gas prices, though. Thanks.
Give it time. It’s always the GOP’s fault.
20 termer, huh? Informed electorate.
Pelosi got a gift when voters ousted Wm. Jefferson. Voters will never oust Rangel from Harlem, so other ways have to be taken and then blame it on Republicans.
Pelosi doesn’t want Rangel as head of Ways and Means.
yeah, wasn’t she going to “clean the house” & drain the swamp?????? What a bunch of windbags & crooks!
Maybe, if things get much worse for them, they'll have to stop covering up for the crooks and turn on their fellow liberals to keep their jobs.
Your tax dollars at work.
Rangel has SO DAMN MANY SCANDALS, but he’s BLACK so NOTHING will happen to him....NOTHING.
I have been saying that they are nothing but whores.As the job cuts continue there knives will get sharper and less biased
“Most ethical Congress in history!”...................GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!...........
Charles Rangel is, indeed, the gift that keeps on giving...
The GOP is powerless to do anything about this. The GOP is just plain powerless altogther.
More like the gift that keeps on TAKING.
Hey! Cut the guy some slack! It’s exhausting giving away other people’s money!!
Yes, but will they do anything with it?
In the eyes of our racist government only Whites are bad!
” not reporting or paying taxes on $75,000 in rental income from his villa”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg in the rental scam. One year’s worth, probably. The condo manager says Charlie’s villa is rented out constantly, and is the villa most in demand. I predict that it will be found that there were several hundreds of thousands of dollars more in unreported rental over the past several years.
Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) continued to hold his seat even after an FBI sting caught him accepting bribes and found thousands in cash in a home freezer. It was only Louisiana voters who got him out of Congress.
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