Also see: Charles Not in Charge
"Ethics panel expands Rangel investigation" by Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | December 10, 2008
WASHINGTON - The House Ethics Committee is expanding its investigation of US Representative Charles Rangel, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
The ethics panel said in a written statement yesterday that 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.
The ethics committee said it was expanding the probe after Rangel asked them to do so.... The committee will now investigate contributions or pledges of money made to the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York, particularly one made by Eugene M. Isenberg, CEO of
And wouldn't you know it? The donor a JEW!
Rangel, 78, reportedly helped preserve a tax loophole that saved the company tens of millions of dollars annually. The congressman, who has been in office for 40 years, has maintained he did nothing improper, and said he has always opposed the kind of change to tax law that would have cost Nabors dearly.
The committee has already been probing Rangel's failure to pay taxes on about $75,000 in rental income from a beach house he owns in the Dominican Republic. They are also looking into his use of three rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem, including one for a campaign office. Also under scrutiny are letters Rangel wrote on congressional stationery looking to drum up donors for the college center.....
Rangel has insisted that whatever he did wrong, they were honest mistakes, not intentional deceptions.
Man, something STINKS!!! You SMELL that STENCH?
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