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Rangel Pushed for a Donation; Insurer Pushed for a Tax Cut
NY Times ^ | 1/2/09 | DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI

Posted on 01/02/2009 9:17:44 PM PST by jimbo123

On April 21, 2008, Representative Charles B. Rangel met with officials of the American International Group, the now-troubled insurance giant, to ask for a donation to a school of public service that City College of New York was building in his honor.

Mr. Rangel had already helped secure a $5 million pledge for the project from a foundation controlled by Maurice R. Greenberg, one of the company’s largest shareholders and its former chief executive. And C.C.N.Y. officials, according to the school’s own records, had high hopes for A.I.G. — a donation of perhaps as much as $10 million.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 110th; aig; ccny; donors; harlem; rangel; shakedown

1 posted on 01/02/2009 9:17:45 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Chalres Rangel involved in graft?! I am SHOCKED! Shocked, I tell you!


2 posted on 01/02/2009 9:24:40 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: jimbo123

Strap him to a barrel in a tent during a gay pride parade.


3 posted on 01/02/2009 9:32:43 PM PST by MaxMax (I'll welcome death when God calls me. Until then, the fight is on)
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To: jimbo123

If Charlie keeps at it, he might match the legacy of his astoundingly corrupt predecessor as congressman representing Harlem, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., of whom WFB observed that he had about the same relationship to corruption as Typhoid Mary did to Typhoid Fever.


4 posted on 01/02/2009 9:52:10 PM PST by Mogwai (Think simony's no longer a problem? Look at eBay)
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To: jimbo123

How is this any different from what Blagojovich did? Shouldn’t Rangel also be forced to resign?


5 posted on 01/03/2009 9:42:25 AM PST by rebel_yell2
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