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Charlie Rangel discloses $660K more in assets
Politico ^

Posted on 08/25/2009 5:54:23 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Rangel discloses $660K more in assets By: John Bresnahan August 25, 2009 08:05 PM EST

New financial disclosure reports filed by Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) show that the veteran lawmaker failed to report more than $660,000 in assets during 2007, a potential violation of House ethics rules.

Rangel, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, also had previously stated that he sold a Florida condominium in 2007, but an amended report covering that year – filed in mid-August – now makes no mention of that transaction. It appears that Rangel no longer owns the condo as it is not listed on his 2008 financial report, filed last month.

The latest revelations on Rangel’s personal finances may prove problematic for the New York Democrat, who is already the target of a wide-ranging ethics investigation. That probe, which Rangel and House Democratic leaders had hoped would last a few months, is now coming up on its one-year anniversary.

The ethics panel is looking into Rangel’s use of several rent-stabilized apartments in a luxury Harlem apartment building, his failure to fully pay taxes on a vacation home in the Dominican Republic, and the lawmaker’s fundraising on behalf of the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College in New York City.

The ethics committee recently broadened the Rangel investigation to include Caribbean trips taken by Rangel and four other lawmakers. The panel is seeking to determine if the trips complied with the House’s ban on corporate-funded travel.

Rangel has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, but the new financial-disclosure reports for 2007 show at least $662,000 in previously undeclared assets held by the lawmaker.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; corruptdems; corruption; cultureofcorruption; democratcorruption; harlem; rangel; taxevasion
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To: Sub-Driver

If the Democrat leadership won’t kick out a Klu Klux Klan member (Sen Bird D-WV) or a man who committed manslaughter while drunk driving on a suspended license while committing an affair then trying to cover it up (Sen Kennedy D-MA), do you really think they would care about a measly 600,000 dollars?


61 posted on 08/26/2009 4:43:57 AM PDT by WaterBoard (Eventually, Socialists run out of other peoples' money to spend.)
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To: exist
Charlie Rangel’s voice hurts my brain.

Charlie Rangel, the perennial winner of the "Susan Estrich Sound-a-like Contest."

62 posted on 08/26/2009 6:46:57 AM PDT by Darth Republican (Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Rangel must be happy that the news has an excuse to ignore this.


63 posted on 08/26/2009 7:52:29 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Gay State Conservative

More than likely Pelosi will be demanding an investigation of the people who had the audacity to investigate a Marxist African-American Demrat.


64 posted on 08/26/2009 8:11:38 AM PDT by dools007
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To: hattend
He is a crook that should have a fair trial followed by a long term in prison.
65 posted on 08/26/2009 8:12:31 AM PDT by Gabrial (ObamaCare: The efficiency of the Post Office, the compassion of the IRS, the costs of the Pentagon)
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To: Sub-Driver

seems as if a wind storm has hit the house of cards


66 posted on 08/26/2009 8:17:41 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: SF_Redux
seems as if a wind storm has hit the house of cards

Kennedy's death should provide cover for a week or so, but now its time for another Larry Craig/Mark Sanford incident to be milked once congress returns. maybe Hillary's fundraising issues will be exploited and she'll resign.

67 posted on 08/26/2009 9:01:51 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: GOPJ

he used Weird Al Franken’s accountant who used Geithner’s
tax software...


68 posted on 08/26/2009 9:19:36 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess he finally remembered to look in the freezer...


69 posted on 08/26/2009 12:22:09 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: SeattleBruce
Or at any rate, at least since Bill Clinton promised the most honest, most open, and most ethical presidency in history...
70 posted on 08/26/2009 12:24:25 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: dools007

Perhaps our fine, upstanding attorney general will even hire a special prosecutor to look into this obvious case of racial discrimination against a fine man like “representative” Rangel.


71 posted on 08/26/2009 12:28:00 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Gabrial

“A fair trial followed by a first class hangin’”


72 posted on 08/26/2009 12:28:57 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: WayneS

Good point. Many crocks full o’ crap uttered on the left, across time. We try to forget, but they come back to haunt us..


73 posted on 08/26/2009 12:48:23 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country & the Tea Party! Take America Back! (Objective media? Try TRAITORS.))
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To: WOBBLY BOB
...he used Weird Al Franken’s accountant who used Geithner’s tax software...

Ahhh, so it does add up - in the world of which you speak...

74 posted on 08/26/2009 3:04:11 PM PDT by GOPJ (Journalists - - stenographers for Democrats - it wasn't always that way...)
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To: Sub-Driver

bttt


75 posted on 08/26/2009 6:23:08 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Sub-Driver

Rangel, Other Reps, Party in Caribbean With Citi Funds
Newsmax.com ^ | 1/30/09 | Jim Meyers
http:/www.newsmax.com/insidecover/rangel_carribean_citi/2009/01/30/176811.html

Posted on 01/30/2009 5:35:54 PM PST by melt

Six Democratic members of Congress enjoyed a Caribbean junket sponsored by Citigroup after Congress had approved the $700 billion bailout of financial services firms in October.

The National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group, has asked Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, for a formal review of the Citigroup’s sponsorship of the trip by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel and five others. The NLPC says the trip violated House rules.

The purported purpose of the Nov. 6-9 junket was to attend the Caribbean Multi-Cultural Business Conference on the island of St. Maarten, but “the primary purpose of attending for most participants appeared to be to take a vacation,” according to the NLPC, which had a representative at the event.

The NLPC said in a statement: “The ‘lead sponsor’ was Citigroup, which contributed $100,000. Citigroup was certainly aware that it would be a major recipient of bailout funds. It was also aware that its fortunes had become increasingly reliant on Congressional actions.
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“”In addition to Rangel, other members of Congress who attended were Donald Payne of New Jersey, Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Michigan, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, and Donna Christensen, the delegate to the House from the United States Virgin Islands””
20 posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 9:01:46 PM by o_zarkman44


76 posted on 08/26/2009 8:57:07 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: kcvl

Culture of corruption bump


77 posted on 08/28/2009 8:05:03 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: piasa
This isn't corruption - it's restitution for slavery. You are a racist if you don't see that interpretation. And it's got to continue for at least another 400 years - just to make things completely fair...
78 posted on 08/28/2009 8:08:28 AM PDT by 4Liberty (End-of-Life care = End-of-Care care)
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To: Altera

I doubt very many read Free Republic in Harlem.


79 posted on 08/28/2009 8:09:01 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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