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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Chalres Rangel involved in graft?! I am SHOCKED! Shocked, I tell you!
Strap him to a barrel in a tent during a gay pride parade.
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.
How is this any different from what Blagojovich did? Shouldn’t Rangel also be forced to resign?
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