Posted on 09/04/2009 12:45:18 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
FOR POLITICIANS with major bad news to release or to make public, there's no time like the dead of August to do it. The thinking goes that the public won't remember a thing come September. We hope Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) will have no such luck. His belated revelation of previously unreported income, property and bank accounts demands that he step aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Mr. Rangel's amended financial disclosure form, which exposes omissions from his 2002 through 2006 records, is a treasure trove of outrage. He neglected to report a checking account with the Congressional Federal Credit Union and one with Merrill Lynch, each valued between $250,000 and $500,000; the tens of thousands of dollars he's earning from dividends from a number of mutual funds and stocks; and the money made from the sale of a Harlem townhouse. As a result, Mr. Rangel's reported net worth doubled, from between $516,015 and $1,316,000 to between $1,028,024 and $2,495,000.
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The WaPo!
Rev up the bus.
Charlie belongs in prison, in fact he can have Traficants old cell.
bump
I agree
I say let him serve as chairman... but from behind bars.
Well I won’t be holding my breath.
Nothing like a tax cheat who writes tax laws, huh?
Get out Charlie before we have to drag you out.
Are Adam Clayton Powell’s old digs on Bimini still available?
He deserves to be in prison along with pretty much everyone else in the federal government.
I have been waiting for Charlie to go to prison for a very long time.
Seating arrangements for this bus will include:
“Nazi-ancy Rahm it thru Pelousy, Harry i’m gonna’ shut your paper down Reid and Chris I’ve a cottage in Ireland and you don’t Dodd”
anyone else ?
oh sorry, I forgot Harry Reid’s middle name ............
Hang’em High
Yeah, me too, but Nancy, AKA Ms. ethical will protect every criminal in the house as long as they're a democrat.
Imagine how quickly they would have been forced to resign if it were a Republican.
Nope. The WaPo helping Rangel. Step aside? Resigning is the most appropriate response.
Where is the Republican Congressional leadership on this issue? I’m listening? Is anyone there?
Another great PR opportunity wasted.
Put Charlie and John Murtha in the same cell.
The entire Congress needs to be led out, confined, stripped of their pensions and RICO all their ill gotten gains.
When done lock them up togather somewhere to rot!
And get it ready for a burnout. It was also reported last night that Charlie has been spreading around campaign cash to 116 other house representatives and three of them are among five Democrats on the ethics committee. One of them has just given the money back so Charlie now has another unreported income thing to deal with.
Step aside? They prosecuted a Republican from Alaska for the exact same allegations. Prosecute him too. It’s only fair.
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