Posted on 10/04/2009 2:55:27 AM PDT by Scanian
On April 9, 1965, a 34-year-old lawyer named Charles Rangel took out a low-interest mortgage to renovate his childhood home — a row house on West 132nd Street that he had just inherited from his grandfather.
The $39,350 loan came from a New York City program to develop low-income housing. Rangel and his sister Frances were to use the money to turn the family home in Central Harlem, which Rangel affectionately called Buckingham Palace, into six apartments.
While Rangel may have thought he scored a sweetheart deal, the loan came back to haunt him during his first run for Congress in 1970. An opponent in the Democratic primary accused him of violating the conditions of the mortgage because he was living in one of the apartments that were supposed to be rented only to poor people,
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You bet because you wanted to see what kind of dirt the media was digging up on him. A non racist would not of read the article at all knowing that was an attack on a black person and would of shot off a email the editors stating that fact.
Practically a lifetime.
Rangel has gorged on the public tit far too long.
Practically a lifetime.
Making fun of a old fat black man with a felonic tast for public money?
HOW DARE YOU SIR!...Howwww Dareee Youuuuuuuuuu!
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Hey, hey,
Ho, ho,
Charlie Rangel’s
Got to go
The voters who keep returning Rangel to Congress are all scumbags.
The bigger crime is the way Nancy Pelooser defends the POS.
You got that right. She promised the most ethical congress ever. Promised to "Drain the swamp"
When you join the good old boy club in D.C. your above the law.
They’re convening ethics hearings on John Ensign but Conyers and Rangel can get away with whatever they want. I guess screwing the public is OK but screwing your staffer is not.
Good read ping.
And how much money is he worth now? After “working” his entire life for the Government.
Too bad Rangle is not in the senate. Did you see what the senate ethics committee handed down to Chris Dodd?
OH, wait a minute, they didn’t do a damn thing either did they?
“Congressman Rangel’s record of unpaid taxes, false financial disclosure reports and hidden assets has been unfolding for more than a year,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative ethics group that has filed several complaints against Rangel. “Speaker Pelosi has done nothing to remove him as Chairman from the House committee that writes the tax laws. Apparently, there is one set of laws for powerful Congressmen and another for everyone else.”
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adam clayton powell
Ultimately, Powell used up his political currency. Members of the House, happy to find a reason to silence him, expelled him for pocketing congressional employment paychecks to his wife, and for taking junkets abroad with female staffers. The fighter in him took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. He won back his seat. Even then, he was docked $25,000 to repay the illegal kickback. But the people of Harlem grew tired of Powell's unbelievable record of roll call absences and endless litigations. In 1970, they finally voted him out. Two years later, he died of prostate cancer at the age of 63.
In January 1967, following allegations that Powell had misappropriated Committee funds for his personal use and other corruption allegations, the House Democratic Caucus stripped Powell of his committee chairmanship. The full House refused to seat him until completion of an investigation by the Judiciary Committee. In March the House voted 307 to 116 to exclude him. Powell won the special election in April to fill the vacancy caused by his exclusion, but did not take his seat.
By the mid-1960s Powell was being increasingly criticized for mismanagement of the committee budget, taking trips abroad at public expense, including travel to his retreat on the Bahamian isle of Bimini, and missing sittings of his committee. He was also under fire in his district, where his refusal to pay a slander judgment made him subject to arrest. He spent increasing amounts of time in Florida and displayed his wealth more than was wise for a Congressman representing a poor district. In June 1970 he was defeated in the Democratic primary by Charles B. Rangel , who has represented the area ever since. Powell failed to get on the ballot for the November election as an independent. He resigned as minister at the Abyssinian Baptist Church and moved to Bimini.
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They all do it. Have you looked at their retirement plan ?
Wouldn't happen today. There are no democrats left with any honor.
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