Charlie got charged

[Gaspar]

. . .with multiple ethics violations.

[Townsend]

Linky?

[Conan71]

So they will censure him...

Circlejerk alert.

[guido911]

Linky?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/22/97979/rangel-summoned-before-ethics.html

[Townsend]

Congressional officials knowledgeable with the ethics process said the exact nature of the violation – or violations – won't be publicly revealed until Rangel goes before an eight-person adjudicatory subcommittee of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct next Thursday to state his case.

Why the secrecy?

[Conan71]

I heard something about Caribbean trips at one point, perhaps this is it, I love the part about a $1.9 mm earmark for what they call a monument to himself 

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), the chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee, came under fire in 2008 for three potential ethics violations.

In July 2008, the New York Times reported that Rangel rented four rent-stabilized apartments in a Harlem luxury building and used one of them as his campaign office. This arrangement appeared to violate New York State and City laws that require a rent-stabilized apartment to be used as one's primary residence. After the story broke, Rangel promptly moved the office from his apartment and filed an ethics complaint against himself.

But a few days later Rangel was back in the news. This time, the Washington Post reported that Rangel had used congressional stationery to solicit funds for his personal foundation from companies with business before his committee. In response, Rangel filed another ethics complaint ($) against himself. Rangel's foundation, the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service, garnered the nickname "Monument to Me" last year after he secured a $1.9 million earmark for it.

Then on Aug. 31, the New York Post broke the news that Rangel had failed to disclose income from renting his Caribbean villa. (The Post's photo of a dozing Rangel is an added bonus.) According to the Times' follow-up, Rangel failed to report the $75,000 in income not only on his congressional disclosure forms, but also on his state and federal income tax filings. What's more, Rangel hadn't paid interest on the villa's mortgage for 10 years. That loan was given to him by a company in which a donor to Rangel was a principal investor. Rangel pleaded ignorance on the loan terms and, once again, called for an ethics investigation ($).

House Republicans, defeated in a prior bid to publicly censure Rangel over the apartment to-do, have responded with calls for Rangel to step down as chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee until the ethics panel concludes its three investigations.


In late November 2008 the troubles continued when the New York Post reported that for years, Rangel had taken advantage of a Washington, D.C., "homestead" tax break reserved for primary residents of the district. But Rangel's rent-stabilized NYC apartment also requires that it be used as a primary residence.

The next day, the New York Times reported that Rangel helped protect a Caribbean tax shelter for a company whose chief executive was a top donor to his foundation. Rangel vehemently denied the allegation that there was any connection.

According to news reports on Feb. 25, 2010, a House panel has found Rangel didn't properly disclose corporate funding of a trip to the Caribbean.

[Gaspar]

Why the secrecy?

Well, the whole crap-sack we call congress is sitting at 11% approval.  If they made everything public I think they might go into the negatives.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Wouldn't it be nice if we (Oklahoma) could clean up our little crap-sack corner of that same Congress?

Start small....

[Conan71]

Well, the whole crap-sack we call congress is sitting at 11% approval.  If they made everything public I think they might go into the negatives.

What ever happened to draining the swamp?  Oh yeah, I forgot the swamp monster is still there

[guido911]

More swamp drainage. Maxine Waters in trouble now?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100731/ap_on_go_co/us_waters_ethics

For those needing a reminder of who this idiot is, here ya go:

[Hoss]

More swamp drainage. Maxine Waters in trouble now?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100731/ap_on_go_co/us_waters_ethics

For those needing a reminder of who this idiot is, here ya go:

Welcome to last week.  I should hope you research better than this...oh wait, you have lackeys for that, don't you?

[Conan71]

Are there any members of the Congressional White Caucus about to get in trouble with the etics committee?

[Gaspar]

Are there any members of the Congressional White Caucus about to get in trouble with the etics committee?

They have good NAAWP lawyers to keep em out of trouble.

[guido911]

They have good NAAWP lawyers to keep em out of trouble.

And the New White Panthers Party will make sure the elections of the members of the white caucus are above board. I also understand many members of the white caucus are also followers of White Liberation Theology.

[Conan71]

Yep, you guys just keep making whitecracks wisecracks about the unfair racist witch hunt going on in Congress.  I can't help but think these investigations were instigated by unscrupulous white Republicans.