House Panel Charges Rangel with Ethics Misdeeds
by PubliusWASHINGTON (AP) – A House investigative committee on Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel with multiple ethics violations, dealing a serious blow to the former Ways and Means chairman and complicating Democrats’ election-year outlook.
The panel did not immediately specify the charges against the Democrat, who has served in the House for some 40 years and is fourth in seniority. The charges by a four-member panel of the House ethics committee sends the case to a House trial, where a separate eight-member panel of Republicans and Democrats will decide whether the violations can be proved by clear and convincing evidence.
The timing of the announcement ensures that a public airing of Rangel’s ethical woes will stretch into the fall campaign, and Republicans are certain to make it an issue as they try to capture majority control of the House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi had once promised to “drain the swamp” of ethical misdeeds by lawmakers in arguing that Democrats should be in charge.
Responding to the charges, Rangel said in a statement, “I was notified today, two years after I requested an investigation, that the Ethics Committee will refer the allegations reviewed by an investigations subcommittee to a subcommittee that will review the facts. I am pleased that, at long last, sunshine will pierce the cloud of serious allegations that have been raised against me in the media.”
Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said, “The action today would indicate that the independent, bipartisan ethics committee process is moving forward.”
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Just rangle?? Most of congress could be brought up on charges…
And it only took Pelosi just under 4 years. So much for ending the culture of corruption.
Clear and convincing evidence? Didn't he admit to some stuff? Guess they won't consider his $500,000 secret accounts or his adjusted income reports from his hidden assets he "forgot" about….
WELL, DON'T YOU THINK ITS ABOUT TIME????????????? I MEAN REALLY, IT WAS MADE PUBLIC 18 MONTHS AGO THAT HE WAS IN VIOLATION OF SOME OF THE MOST BASIC ETHIC RULES.
UNBELIEVABLE — THAT ITS TAKEN THIS LONG!!!!!!!
What about Dodd and Frank???
Guess Pelosi's idea of "draining the swamp" ended up in draining the dirty water from around the Democrat's personal skeletons.
He can pay tax and penalties at the Bush tax cut rates. Taxes go up 2011.
Hell, it took over 10 golf outings and over 80 days for the "messiah" to "plug the damn hole"….
Whadda ya expect from beltway insiders? (be it left OR right)
So how many more years will we have to wait until the Indictments??
Damned racist are everywhere!
they're too busy testing out whether or not "teabagging" is a health hazard. That way they can blame the TPM for endangering the health and well-being of America.
/sarc
He'll Rangel out of it before it's all over……………………….
I always wonder about the timing of these things. Wasn't this supposed to happen awhile ago? Kabuki to deflect the "Shirley Story".
Best news I've heard in a while.
Throw him in jail with the rest of the crooks, and their families, and confiscate all of their ill gotten gains.
We'll be out of debt in no time.
Dang, it sure took long enough to catch up with this weasel. No matter what the final outcome, Charlie will walk away with all of his congressional retirement that he accrued on tax payers monies. A classic example of why being a government crook pays. GRRRrrrrrr
I threw up a little bit on that one before I laughed.
May as well wait until we have a different AG to deal with these two. They need to go away for a long long time.
well, after another four to six years, they might actually try to have a hearing. he will most likely retire, they will look the other way, and keep his pension for the rest of his money grubbing life. eric holder won't go after him, he is not a cracker, or a republican.
America is my country, and you nut cases aren't going to take it from me. God Bless America.
The wheels of "liberal justice" move slowly…
…if at all.
Just two. We will have a new AG and DOJ that will make sure they all are held accountable for their crimes against the people.
Sorry: I should have specified…right wing nut cases. We have a few on the left, too, of course,, but they haven't been pullling crap that hurts individuals like Ms. Sherrod. Racist, divisionist crap. If you don't like the way things are going in this country, get the hell out. And good riddens. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
years over due
We teach our children, and what do our elected officials do? Lead by example?
http://vimeo.com/12433678
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/videos/?uri=chan...
Poor Charlie. He got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. The rest of the Dem Congress has their hands in our bank accounts. Will this make Charlie talk and spill the beans on the rest? We can only hope.
This turd should be kicked out of office and in jail. He is the poster boy for all corrupt DC politicians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdtFWCrCh0s
Whine, whine, blah, blah, blah! Whine, whine, blah, blah, blah!
Wow the trolls are out in force. Wish they could at leats stay on topic. They will sacrifice Rangel just before election to show how "serious" they are about ethics ( ha ha). He's dead man walking.
Congress is becoming irrelevant in dealing within there own problems just as we are being treated irrelevant on the issues and bills they pass. This will go nowhere just like it does with all the royalty in DC. This a show being put on to satisfy the 'little people', THATS YOU.
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The demon-crat's define the culture of corruption.
Not those kind of charges (as I'm sure you realize). Unfortunate as it is.
They are too busy writing new corrupt banking legislation….. oh wait they already finished and it's now law!!
Oh sure. They pick on the Black guy as an easy target, when they should be going full-force after Dodd and Frank. Buncha racist cowards.
Talk about being way overdue! They could have ousted this slime ball years ago for corruption! I doubt Rangle will see any jail time, I'll settle for seeing him kicked out of congress.
Since they are not going after Dodd and Frank,,,,,it must be racist!!!
Nothing will happen to him. He is protected by Piglosi. They don't want to lose THAT part of the voting process.
This is nothing but a dog and pony show for the public's benefit, so don't get too excited by this charade. This whole administration is nothing but a charade. I will include the GOP RINOS in that statement. "We The People" need to clean house this November and get rid of the Mafia that is ruling us.
Over/under until he has his own MSNBC show?
Only the tip of the iceberg. His defenders are already lining up the defense that will be used. Anybody want to guess that race will enter into the equation?
So why did Cleaver, Carson and Lewis make up the story about the "N" word and spitting did you not think that this might have been their intent all along.
Just before the elections…
You're being played like a fiddle by your new masters, like a good little useful idiot.
Hey, look everyone! Charlie has logged in to this site.
No meaningful charges will be pressed as long as Holder, Geithner and Obama are in charge.
ding ding ding ding!
100% correct!
We've got guns, too. We started carrying them in the American Revolution and wrote the right to them in the Constitution. So don't be so confident of your superiority.
"What in the world does Ms. Sherrod have to do with Rangel having skirted ethics"
Heck Tony, they're both black and we're all RACIST…..so there must be some connection in their feeble little serf minds. Their masters have them programmed for only a few words, on repeat……Racist, tolerance, divisive.
Does any of the timing of any of this not disturb your conscience and set off warning bells about where we are going and who is leading you there?
THINK!
I didn't thumb you down, cause you got the last part right.
There are plenty of right-wingers who died in the Revolution trying to defend King George, who I'm sure you've never heard ofl. As I said, if you don't like America and are not willing to participate in our democratic system, you and your nut case buddies, find someplace else to go. How about Venezuela? Hahahahaha.
hello…. government work… takes time, son !!!
There were no panty wearing liberal sissy-bitches like you in the Revolution. In 1776 you'd have been crawling into bed with any British soldier you could find, begging for protection. So don't don't start that…we all know you're lying.
D'oh. I forgot about them both being black. I look at Rangel and I just see a dishonest man…not a dishonest black man. My bad.
Cowards, certainly.
Oh my, you have been brain washed.
Please research Republic and representative government.
That's fine. Just don't force me to live in your America because I have my own. Ain't freedom great?
If Piglosi ever pulled the plug on the swamp, she would be the first to go flushing down the drain. The House Investigative Committee needs to turn their attention to her, as well. She has a long list of ethics infractions as long as your arm with her Air Force taxi service, including bar hostess, flying her family around the country on the taxpayers dime. I propose a lynching for the whole damn mob.
Shoutout to you slimeball liberal journ0list. I'm on the prowl for one of you nerdy turds to chuck through a plate glass window. As a precautionary warning, the glass won't be tempered. Pustules.
"Wish they could at leats stay on topic"
Ain't THAT the truth! I can't decide if it's Alinsky tactics or if they all have ADD.
And why would you assume I'd never heard of ol' King George the nut?
And just so you know, America isn't a democratic system. It's a representative republic. So…I'm pretty sure that makes you…well…what does it make you? Stupid?
And what the heck happened to my comment above? Sheesh. LOL. More system glitches?
Is it just me or could this guy be a real-life stand-in for the popular cartoon conceptions of the robber barons?
Two things occur to me:
1) There is an underlying Republican scandal that Pelosi just became aware of, and is throwing Rangel under the bus, pre-emptively. That way, she can go after another, bigger enemy, saying "hey, I am an equal-opportunity person, dedicated to getting scoundrels of any party".
2) She wants to pressure him to resign, thereby replacing him before the next election, and giving the Dems a chance at retaining that seat.
Well, one more thing occurs to me – she may want to whitewash all of the villains now, before she loses her position. That way, she can control the outcome of the investigation and subsequent report.
Yeah, it's a problem we conservatives have. Just don't see it , until some Prog/Lib shows up….it is ALL they see.
Nope sounds like Liberal Academia.
Charlie needs to go to jail and have his Rump "Rangled"!
He will die a natural death from old age before he pays for anything…
These are only "ETHICAL" charges not criminal charges.
1-5 Odds; O/U .0005
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You Lefties are trying to bring Venezuela HERE.. During the Revolution 1/3 were loyal to King George (like lgblanch) 1/3 were Patriots and 1/3 did not care. There was 118 separate battles between the Loyalists and Patriots with NO British involved…. What is sad is how small you are and how blind you are.
Sad, but our elected officials are representative of the American People…..
His district will only replace him with another criminal as in the past (Adam Clayton Powell)….
The House Spends $1 Billion on Itself
(July 21) — Congress requires a lot of stuff to keep itself running. Like coffee. And plane tickets. And student loan payments.
That's the point underscored (and underscored again) by figures collated by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that uses technology to try to make government more transparent. In early June the organization released its latest massive data dump on the expenditures that House representatives make from their Members Representational Allowances, or MRAs. Separate from campaign accounts, which have to be filled through fundraising, these sums — ranging from $1.3 million to $1.9 million in most cases — come from taxpayers' dollars and are meant to cover a lawmaker's operating, rather than political, expenses. Paying for an attack ad with your MRA is a no-no.
He's a multi millionare who will walk away laughing at us with just a slap on the wrist…..
Please don't insult the Mafia by comparing them to this Administration……
He will get out of it.. It will be blamed on some one under his direct control, or he did not know anything, or the whole matter was taken out of context, or it's the racist white tea parties that are out to get him, then yet could be another then to blame Bush about…
Why! What are they trying to distract us from?
Be careful people
40 days 40 nights
The latter maybe
Should I have put a sarcasm tag on there? It's so hard to know anymore!
We're certainly beyond the pale, out where everything is a bit . . .surreal.
Charlie Rangle is but a symptom of a much larger problem. He is a malignant tumor in the Cancer of America that we more commonly refer to as CONgress.
About time something is happening — Charlie was hiding behind the congressional black caucus with Pelosi's blessing.
It's outrageous that these buffoons demand we pay confiscatory taxes that don't apply to them and then cheat on theirs. The IRS just hired 16,000 people to come after us. Why don't they just start with him, he's right there in Washington under their noses?
.
He is not anywhere anytime soon people..
Well, this is really something! OR, could it really be nothing?
6th grade?
And who would you use it against, those who do not agree with the progressive agenda? The right to bear arms is placed there for the retention of liberty. It is to be used as a last resort against tyranny.
Here is a quote from one of the patriot you claim to stand with. There are many more such as this.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.-Thomas Jefferson
We’ll that’s dumb lgblanch, then who will pay for everything. A parasite can’t live without a host.
Wow, an idiot. You see, equating a conservative who wanted to conserve the institution of monarchy during the American revolution with the modern Conservative movement, which is mainly concerned with conserving the constitution, is a very uniquely liberal use of the English language. You see, the constitution destroyed the institution of monarchy in the United States. It also acknowledged a number of liberties and rights for individuals while limiting the power of the state and majorities over those same individuals. Liberals are generally the ones who believe that either any simple majority has complete control over any minority (businessmen, the rich, etc.) or that a select few technocrats should have control over every aspect of everyone's lives in the interest of efficiency. Either one is a sick, perverted view of the world that is completely contrary to what the American Revolution was all about.
Harvard Law
Oh $h!t…another union school teacher from Massachusetts! Hide your kids so they are not indoctrinated from the barrel of his gun.
Pelosi said she would "drain the swamp"… but how do you drain the swamp when you are swimming in the ocean?
I was agreeing with you!
Your right. The Mafia atleast had honor. This trailor trash administration has none.
America is all our country, and I will not let a bunch of Marxist Progressives turn it into China. Either get on board with the Republic, or hand your fate to an oligarchy…your choice.
Did you miss the point of the whole NAACP episode here? It seems you did. Try again.
You obviously misunderstand authoritarian government, and the fact that it comes from the left side of the spectrum. Please read a book before you come on here.
Oh, I thought as much! I was just funnin' with you.
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Think about the fact that one week ago there was very few if any trolls here…..but now they are here in force….spewing the same tired lines……distorting words to provoke…..poking….Alinsky tactics for sure…
Airsoft guns perhaps, the kinder gentler type that don't "kill people",
What a twit!
And as for Dems not hurting "innocent people"..You CANNOT be serious!
Wait, doesn't the left hold out Venezuela as a model to be emulated? Oh, that was Cuba….my bad
Yes, we can!!!
And don't you worry your empty little head. We will.
Too bad you lack the stones to actually use them.
Now, who left the door open? ObamaZombies are lurching all over the place…
They all probably just finished a socialist seminar in Santa Cruz and received kool-aide marching orders to go out and type in their printed stupid comments.
This zinger brought to you by your CommuCrat public-
schoolindoctrination center Debate Team. Our motto: "We put the ochre in medicore."Try again, skippy.
LOL…your first sentence. I had a flash of Nancy as the wicked witch of the west at the end…"I'm melting, I'm melting…what a world, what a world…"
Correction, America is every American's country. So you can't lose what never belonged in perpetuity to you. Don't let the electoral returns kick your ass too hard on the way out of office. God Bless America & Representative government.
Amen brother! Many need to face judgment, it starts this November!
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