Rep. Charles Rangel’s ongoing ethics probe is taking a serious toll – on his campaign war chest. In the last three months of 2009 alone, Rangel shelled out $574,348 on lawyers, according to his latest federal election filings. That’s 84% of his total campaign spending during the same period. Ever since Rangel ran afoul of [...]
House Republicans failed Wednesday for a third time to oust Rep. Charles Rangel as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, but they kept the political spotlight on his ethical problems. The House voted 246-153 along mostly partisan lines to refer a GOP resolution to remove Rangel to the House ethics committee. The Democratic [...]
New York Rep. Charles Rangel is facing more questions over his personal finances after an amended report he filed this month shows he failed to disclose up to $500,000 in assets in 2007. An amended report to his 2007 Congressional disclosure form indicates that Rangel’s assets include a checking account with a balance between $250,000 [...]
The House ethics committee is investigating whether five Democratic lawmakers, including two committee chairmen, received improper gifts in traveling to Caribbean conferences in 2007 and 2008. The committee said it was investigating Charles B. Rangel of New York, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Michigan; Donald M. Payne of New [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel over a quip made by the congressman in regards to the shooting death of off-duty police officer last week. Officer Omar Edwards was shot to death in Harlem Thursday night by a white officer, Andrew Dunton. Edwards was in plain clothes and running after a suspect with [...]
Representative Charles B. Rangel’s financial disclosure forms had at least 28 omissions in the past 30 years and failed to account for what became of more than $239,000 in assets, according to a report issued Wednesday by a private government-ethics group. Despite Congressional rules that require members to list the purchase or sale of any [...]
Between 2004 and 2007, Rep. Charles Rangel steered nearly $80,000 in campaign cash to an Internet company run by his son — paying lavishly for a pair of political websites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create. The payments are apparently legal under federal law, but [...]
Congressman Charles Rangel said Tuesday he is sure he’ll be cleared by a House Ethics Committee investigation which is scheduled to be completed by next month. The committee’s looking into reports that Rangel did not pay taxes on a vacation home, has three rent-stabilized apartments and inappropriately used his office to solicit donations for a [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expects the ethics investigation into Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel’s finances will wrap up soon. Pelosi said Wednesday that the House Ethics Committee assured her the report will be finished before the congressional session ends January 3rd. Rangel has been under the microscope for months for not paying taxes on income from [...]
Republican lawmakers called on the House ethics committee on Tuesday to investigate Representative Charles B. Rangel’s efforts to preserve a tax loophole for an oil-drilling company at the same time that its chief executive pledged $1 million to a City College of New York school that will bear the congressman’s name. And Senator Charles E. [...]
