I guess I'm out of the loop...What's going on with Charlie Rangel?

[MadBadger]

I read hes being investigated by the house ethics committee.

[grannie4peace]

1. tax troubles-

[happydreams]

2. If you are a dem and have one hair out of place your ass is grass.

If you are a Repuke you can be a war criminal and nada happens.

[Dr. Strange]

3. Yeah, but it's more than a hair.

He didn't pay some $10,000 in taxes. And these are tax laws that he helped to write. If the politicians can't follow the law, then damn! Them laws is way too complicated.

[happydreams]

5. Yer right. I've heard that Rangel was just sloppy about keeping his

own records straight, but then that doesn't bode well for him writing tax laws either.
What gets me is for instance the way McDermott was hounded to no end about the eavesdropping on Gingrich while the Bushies are doing it illegally to all of us. MCDermott was probably set up.

But you are correct.

[ThomWV]

4. It is slowly being shown that he has done nothing wrong

[seemslikeadream]

6. Isn't it about a house of his in Haiti?

[OhioChick]

7. Here you go....

Mr. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat whose position as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee makes him one of the most powerful members of Congress, has faced an assortment of allegations during the past three months: accepting several rent-stabilized apartments from a Manhattan developer; using his Congressional stationery to solicit donations for a City University of New York center named after him; and failing to report — and pay taxes on — $75,000 in rental income he made from a villa in the Dominican Republic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/washington/25rangel.html?ref=nyregion