Posted on 08/28/2009 3:23:09 AM PDT by Scanian
Edited on 08/28/2009 3:36:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Rep. Charlie Rangel's multimillion-dol lar "oops" this month raises plenty of good questions, but this may be the best: How can Democrats continue to close their eyes to such sleaze?
And, more to the point, this: Will prose cutors follow up on any of it?
Charlie is yet another Democrat criminal. His death will be the only way to get rid of him. New York keeps sending the SOB back to DC.
We didnt elect you to make friends with this scum, we elect you to fight them tooth and nail and expose them and destroy them without mercy.
Because Democrats have no problem with it. Rangel keeps getting re-elected. This means a voting majority of his constituents have no problem with his shenanigans.
There's no use in trying to expect most elected Democrats to live up to the kinds of moral and legal standards to which most of us subscribe, because they have a completely warped sense of right and wrong to begin with.
How could that happen?
Charlie won't say.
Even stranger, city records show that Rangel still owns the building.
How can that be, if Rangel sold it, as he now claims? Maybe the records are wrong, but Charlie's not talking.”
Instead of going after the CIA and undermining this country's security they should be going after all of these tax cheats. Especially since his buddy BO is spending us into oblivion.
Rangel should be in jail just like any one of us would be if we did something like this.
The truth is self evident and they are too stupid and/or blind to recognize it.
Bumpy Johnson....Adam Powell...Frank Lucas....Charles Rangle, all from the same area, all knew each other. Two were known gangsters, two stayed in politics and kept under the radar. All have one thing in common: they are loved by their constituents because they flaunted The Man.
You said it. Their thinking goes something like, “it’s not how you live, it’s how you vote.”
So as long as Rangel continues to vote to “spread the wealth around” and spends OPM, the parasites in his district will keep re-electing him.
Can best be answered by a 'TAXACHEWSITS' registered voter.......
These CROOKS want to manage our health care!
This POS is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He needs to be stripped of his chairmanship immediately. What is the status of the so-called investigation?
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The Committee of Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives. Members of the Ways and Means Committee cannot serve on any other House Committees, though they can apply for a waiver from their party’s congressional leadership. The Committee has jurisdiction over all taxation, tariffs and other revenue-raising measures, as well as a number of other programs including:
* Social Security
* Unemployment benefits
* Medicare
* Enforcement of child support laws
* Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a federal welfare program
* Foster care and adoption programs
just resume enhancement for a Demotird
Hey .. how soon we forget ... A stinking (no pun intended) kennedy lies (no pun intended) in state. Plain flat out murder took place, and he is the real American hero?
Try explaining that to all the Americans (I call them something else) that have had this camelot love affair wtih the most crooked family to ever grace american history book pages. They will flock to the casket that holds the dirtbag of all dirtbags fawnin over what great man he was.
Morons ... we live in a nation filled with blinde morons.
The man has made millions since he became a congresscritter! Pay offs, bribes and graft.
This was interesting:
“Apparent quid pro quo in preserving a tax loophole for an oil company that donated $1 million to a planned “public service” center named for Rangel. “
Wonder which ‘oil company’? Chavez?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/nyregion/25rangel.html
The Congressman, the Donor and the Tax Break
New York Times, The (NY) - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Author: DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Abstract: Questions emerge about Rep Charles B Rangel’s efforts to help raise $11 million for City College of New York’s Charles B Rangel School of Public Service, but he insists he has kept his attempts to attract donors scrupulously separate from his Congressional duties; records and interviews show Rangel was instrumental in preserving lucrative tax loophole that benefited oil -drilling firm Nabors Industries, while its chief executive Eugene M Isenberg was pledging $1 million to project; Rangel says pledge played no part in decision to protect loophole; House ethics committee is investigating, along with other issues about his fund-raising and personal finances; chronology; photos (L)
e of New York school of public service to be named in his honor. In recent months, as questions have emerged about his fund-raising, he has insisted that he has kept his efforts to attract donors scrupulously separate from his official duties in Congress.
But Congressional records and interviews show that Mr. Rangel was instrumental in preserving a lucrative tax loophole that benefited an oil -drilling company last year, while at the same time its chief executive was pledging $1 million to the project, the Charles B. Rangel School of Public Service at C.C.N.Y.
The company, Nabors Industries, was one of four corporations based in the United States that were widely criticized in 2002 and 2003 for opening offices in the Caribbean to reduce their federal tax payments. Mr. Rangel was among dozens of representatives from both parties who bitterly opposed those offshore moves and, in 2004, pushed unsuccessfully for legislation to make the companies pay more tax.
But in 2007, when the United States Senate tried to crack down on the companies, Mr. Rangel, who had recently been sworn in as House Ways and Means chairman, fought to protect them. The tax shelter for the four companies was preserved, saving Nabors an estimated tens of millions of dollars annually and depriving the federal treasury of $1.1 billion in revenues over a decade, according to a Congressional analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.
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Thanks for the headsup. Great thread.
(1) Took a "homestead" tax deduction meant for year-round DC residents - though he legally resides in New York.
(2) Rangel paid no taxes on his luxe property in the Caribbean;
(3) Has four rent-stabilized apartments (one is a campaign office);
(4) Improperly stored his car in a House parking garage;
(5) The NY Times reported oil-drilling businessman Eugene Isenberg made a $1 million pledge toward building The Rangel School for Public Service at City College of New York. Rangel later preserved a controversial offshore tax loophole that saved millions for Isenberg's company. The Isenberg-Nabors deal is, potentially, far more serious: It reeks of a quid pro quo between Rangel's official duties and fund-raising for his personal project. The Times reported that Rangel held meetings the same day, at the same hotel, with Isenberg to discuss the CCNY project and then with Nabors' chief lobbyist on the tax loophole.
(6) Took free trips sponsored by corporate lobbyists.
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Rangel's multiple ties with tax-exempt foundations smell to high heaven. Rangel’s pricey real estate deals are entwined with his financial connections to several tax-exempt entities.
The IRS says the biggest potential for IRS fraud are tax-exempt non-profits doing deals with other tax-exempt non-profits----all posing as do-gooder "foundations" and “charities.” The NY Post reports at least three tax-exempt entities connected to Rangel‘s finances:
(1) The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service (Rangel co-opted $2 million via Capitol Hill allocations, plus another $700,000 from Dept of HUD),
(2) The NY Carib News Foundation (organized financing for Rangel’s island-hopping luxe Caribbean trips),
(3) The Ann S. Kheel Charitable Trust---supposedly aids "disadvantaged neighborhoods" gave $440,000 to The Charles B. Rangel Center (the largest single donation in the charity's 4-year history). Theodore Kheel, Esq, VP of Grupo Punta Cana Operating Company, (mortgage holder on Rangel’s luxury villa), donated $17,000 to Rangel's congressional campaigns and $52,000 to a Rangel-run political action committee since 1990, federal filings show. (Ann Kheel is his late wife).
(4) The "tax-exempt Carib News Foundation" subsidized Rangel’s trips to luxury island resorts---perfect places to hide money from the taxman. The published list of known money-laundering havens includes Panama, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Cook Islands, Dominica, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Panama, the Philippines, St. Kitts, Israel, and the Grenadines. Suspected tax havens include Cyprus, Gibraltar, Monaco, and Antigua.
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Let's find out why this is not being highly publicized.
EMAIL rush@eibnet.com
EMAIL 60m@cbsnews.com
Money quotes:
“On Feb. 12, the day the bill was being marked up by the committee he leads, Mr. Rangel held two discussions at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. First, the congressman sat down for breakfast with Mr. Isenberg and Mr. Morgenthau to further talk about Mr. Isenberg’s support for the Rangel center, Mr. Morgenthau said. Mr. Isenberg said that after breakfast, he escorted Mr. Rangel across the room, where the lobbyist for Nabors, Kenneth J. Kies, was waiting.
Over sweet rolls and coffee, Mr. Kies asked Mr. Rangel if he would maintain his opposition to the efforts to take away the company’s loophole. Mr. Rangel said he would, Mr. Kies and Mr. Isenberg said in interviews.
“His position against retroactive taxes was well-known,” Mr. Kies said, “so it wasn’t hard to sell at all.”
Mr. Rangel does not recall meeting with Mr. Kies that day, according to his lawyer, Ms. Kiernan.
Mr. Isenberg said that he was not asked explicitly about his financial donations to City College at either meeting, and that the congressman’s chat with the lobbyist lasted eight minutes, and only three were spent on the tax loophole.
Eleven days later, a check for $100,000 from Mr. Isenberg was cashed by City College. Mr. Isenberg said that the check was dated Feb. 7, but that he was not certain when he gave it to the school, and college officials declined to comment.”
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8 minutes? LOL..what? 3 minutes to talk about the pay off...3 minutes to talk about the cover -up and 2 minutes to write the check?
This man should be in an orange jumpsuit.Thanks for the links. It is hard to keep up with the Democrat Culture Of Corruption these days.
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