Ethics committee expands Rangel investigation

The House ethics committee on Thursday expanded its investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel to include his belated financial disclosure of hundreds of thousands of dollars in previously unreported assets and income.

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GOP leader asks Rangel to step aside

Rep. Charles Rangel's disclosure of previously unreported assets sparked a new Republican demand Friday for the House Ways and Means chairman to relinquish his post while his conduct is investigated.

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Rangel admits Obama comment was 'inappropriate'

U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel says it was "entirely inappropriate" that he made a comment about President Barack Obama needing to be careful when visiting Harlem, where a black police officer was fatally shot by a white colleague last week.

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Slain NYC officer remembered as dedicated cop

After Omar Edwards achieved a dream by graduating from the New York Police Department academy, he was so proud he wore his badge around his apartment.

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House to vote Thursday on bill to tax bonuses

Rep. Charles Rangel says the House plans to take up a bill Thursday that would impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses paid to top-earning employees at AIG and other companies receiving big government bailouts.

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House vote allows Rangel to keep chairmanship

House Democrats voted down an attempt Tuesday to remove Rep. Charles Rangel as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee during an ongoing ethics investigation.

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House ethics panel expands Rangel investigation

The House ethics committee is expanding an investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. The ethics panel issued a statement Tuesday saying it had voted to expand an already far-ranging probe into the New York Democrat to examine whether he protected an oil drilling company from a big tax bill when the head of that company pledged a $1 million donation to a college center named after the congressman.

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Pelosi: Rangel ethics probe will end by Jan. 3

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the far-reaching ethics investigation into Rep. Charles Rangel will conclude by early next year.

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Report links Rangel school gift to tax loophole

Rep. Charles Rangel helped preserve a tax loophole for an oil drilling company at the same time the company's executive pledged $1 million to a school to be named in the congressman's honor, according to a published report.

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NY Rep. Rangel hires accountant in ethics mess

New York Rep. Charles Rangel has hired an accountant to pore over his personal finances as he faces an ethics committee investigation.

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Rangel pays IRS, then complains of 'guerrilla war'

Rep. Charles Rangel wrote six checks for about $10,800 in back taxes, and then penned an open letter to New Yorkers Friday, saying he has done nothing dishonorable and is the target of a GOP "guerrilla war."

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Tax expert Rangel mangles facts in ethics mess

Even when Rep. Charles Rangel tries to explain how he got into his tax mess, he mangles the facts so much it's easy to see how his accounts — and accountants — are muddled. And this from the lawmaker who has such a big say in determining who pays taxes and how much.

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Rangel admits mistakes, $5,000 bill to Uncle Sam

The head of the House tax-writing committee admitted Wednesday that he owes about $5,000 to the Internal Revenue Service for failing to report income on his returns.

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Rangel invites ethics probe of his fundraising

Rep. Charles Rangel asked the House Ethics Committee on Thursday to investigate his fundraising for a college research center named after him, saying a probe would prove he did nothing wrong.

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Congressman to move office from low-rent NYC apt

A newspaper reports that U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel will move his campaign office out of one of four rent-stabilized apartments he leases in Manhattan.

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Aide: Rangel's Ailment Was Encephalitis

The illness that put Rep. Charles Rangel in a New York City hospital earlier this month was a brain-swelling virus, not the flu, a spokesman said Thursday.

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An opinion piece, by Albert R. Hunt, about the relationship between money and influence in Washington.

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I think this blogger astutely framed the absurdity of Rep. Wilson's admonishment today by the House of Representatives (Chuck Rangel among them).

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Try also hypocrisy. Mr. Rangel is the head of the Ways and Means Committee that writes the nation's income tax policy. The politician, who for generations has urged higher taxes, has chronically schemed to avoid paying them.

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Change you can believe in? Transparency? Apparently, Democrats don't have to pay taxes, only tell the American Public houw THEIR taxes will be spent.

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Well it is about time that some democrat news papers take up the call for one of the most corrupt politicians in Washington to resign as part of the process of getting thrown in jail.

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Remove Charles Rangel From Office New York!!! All Military read!!

I started working on an article earlier this morning about Representative Charles Rangel and his attempt to throw the race card into the healthcare reform debate.

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So Predictable…When The Going Gets Tough, The Libs Play The Race Card

Well I bet nobody saw this coming. Bogged down by sinking approval numbers for the President, and a growing disdain among Americans for the democrat led senate, Charles Rangel has enacted the ever-so-popular liberal defense mechanism, the race card.

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Even stranger, city records show that Rangel still owns the building. How can that be, if Rangel sold it, as he now claims? Maybe the records are wrong, but Charlie's not talking. There are adjustments -- as much as $780,000 -- in the value of his assets:

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New financial disclosure reports filed by Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) show that the veteran lawmaker failed to report more than $660,000 in assets during 2007, a potential violation of House ethics rules.

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Embattled Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel, who has been plagued by a series of ethics investigations over the past year, has disclosed more than $500,000 in previously unreported assets, according to a report today.

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On health care, they seek pie-in-the-sky "reforms" that do little to control costs -- though Obama says that's his priority.

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[Rangel's] criticism of the president for trying to clear the Democratic primary field for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

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Here's a tip for President Obama: Next time you excoriate tax cheats, try to keep Rep. Charles Rangel's name out of the discussion. Somehow, it doesn't further your case.

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The U.S. House, moving swiftly in response to public outrage, voted to impose a 90 percent tax on employee bonuses at American International Group Inc. and other companies getting at least $5 billion in taxpayer bailout funds.

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From Brain-Terminal.com: Congressman Charles Rangel seems to be having trouble with his taxes. The thing is, he's the chairman of the committee responsible for writing the tax laws. If the tax code is too confusing for him, what hope do the rest of us have?

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To wit: "Assets worth between $239,026 and $831,000 appear or disappear with no disclosure of when they were acquired, how long they were held or when they were sold."

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Nobody's home at the House ethics committee that's supposed to be investigating Rep. Charles Rangel.

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Indeed, she's asking if she and other congressional Democrats even "have a right to ignore" the high crimes and misdemeanors populating the fervid imaginations of hard-left pitbulls like Reps. John Conyers and Henry Waxman.

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If this man was a republican he would have already been forced from office and would be in jail by now. Talk about double standards!

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Thursday, it came to light that Rangel's campaign committee steered some $80,000 to his son's Internet company for work that Politico.com's Luke Rosiak and Glenn Thrush describe as "poorly designed" and shoddy.

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Here's a good rule of thumb: If Charlie Rangel owns it, you can bet the tax man's not getting his fair share.

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Pelosi's same-day reaction contrasts sharply with how she's handled ethical lapses of Rep. Charlie Rangel, as when:

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This legendary black congressman suffered from allegations about misusing his position as a powerful committee chairman. Questions arose about his travel habits and a seaside property. His displays of wealth ill-represented his poor Harlem constituency.

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After two months of Rep. Charles Rangel asking the ethics committee to investigate him, the panel Wednesday launched a formal probe into the multiple allegations piled up around the powerful New York Democrat.

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Charlie Rangel must be a centipede - given how many shoes have been dropping regarding his personal finances. Yet he's pugnaciously defying demands that he step aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee - which writes the nation's tax laws.

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