Rangel Pays Ethics Investigators Probing Him
This sleeze has just got to go.
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Desperately seeking exoneration, the notoriously corrupt New York congressman under investigation for tax evasion and a sleuth of other offenses has given hefty campaign contributions to members of the House Ethics Committee charged with investigating him.
A major news agency reports that Democrat Charles Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, is making back-door deals and using his renowned political power peddling to wrangle his way out of probes involving his mounting legal problems.
Since his ethics probes began last fall, Rangel, who has represented Harlem in the U.S. House for three decades, has covertly given campaign donations to 119 members of congress, including three of the five Democrats on the House Ethics Committee who are supposedly investigating him. They include Kentucky’s Ben Chandler, North Carolina’s G.K. Butterfield and Vermont’s Peter Welch.
More at: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/sep/rangel-pays-inves...
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Does the name Adam Claton Powel ring a bell? Rangel is
just following in his footsteps.
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