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Rep. Rangel Found Guilty of Violating Ethics Rules
- Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:04pm by
Scott Baker
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A House ethics panel has found Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York guilty on 11 counts of breaking House rules.
The full ethics committee will next conduct a hearing on the appropriate punishment for the former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The committee will then make a recommendation to the House.
Possible punishments include a House vote deploring Rangel’s conduct, a fine and denial of privileges.
The eight-member ethics panel had sat as a jury to judge Rangel’s conduct. The 80-year-old congressman from Harlem was charged with 13 counts of financial and fundraising wrongdoing.



















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Comments (259)
grandmommie
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:17pmWhoopie!!
Report Post »troyvar
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:17pmWhat a bunch of wasted time and money. Why didn’t his constituency vote him out?
Report Post »hbhobby
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:13pm@Troyvar – Exactly! Who is the bigger fool, the fool or the fools that follow.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:16pmWhat? Now they will spank his hand and tell him not to do it again. Too bad they can’t do real jail time just like the rest of us. He knew what he was doing he just thought it would last forever like the rest of them.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:30pmThey will give him 5 years to knock it off.
Report Post »Now on to Franks, dodd, waters, pelosi (Lying about WMDs and knowledge of waterboarding – false charges) and Yesp—- Obama (for incitement, and undermining the U.S. Constitution – violation of oath).
Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:31pmThey will give him 5 years to knock it off.
Report Post »Now on to Franks, dodd, waters, pelosi (Lying about WMDs and knowledge of waterboarding – false charges) and Yes—- Obama (for incitement, and undermining the U.S. Constitution – violation of oath).
Mirimichi
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:31pmYou are absolutely right. If we had done any of this, we would be sitting in a jail cell.
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:16pmGood he’s been found Guilty now the House needs to impeach him.
Report Post »CyberMax
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:15pmDon’t get all excited about the verdict, it’s the “sentence” that he gets that matters. And more than likely, it’s gonna be a slap on the wrist for him … yet a slap in the face for the American public. And BTW … why are the discucssions of the panel secret? REALLY? We can’t hear in “open trial” as the EMPLOYERS of this gang? Just sayin’
Report Post »0311SaltDog
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:15pmWhat a shame, this guy is a certified war hero. A k|ller, a war dog who served honorably.. Too bad he decided to milk it.
Report Post »Joisey
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:15pmWhen are we going to get to the criminal guilty finding?
Report Post »Ridge Runner
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:15pmHe will get no major punishment for this. Even the majority of Republicans won’t want to do much to him because they are swindlers as well.
What we need is someone with enough guts to push for term limits on all these fools.
Report Post »In God We Trust
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:00pmYou are so right! They need term limits. Its always a topic of discussion, and thats all. A good percentage of our representatives ARE swindlers. Corruption is common place. A shame what power will do to people. Cherry Blossoms can’t conceal the stench which permeates the air in DC.
Report Post »ASovereignCitizen
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:14pmGuilty on 11 of 13 counts. He must be given a serious talking to sometime before he is seated in the new congress. And he will believe me. A VERY serious talking to. lmao
Report Post »Marine Recon Dad
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:14pm… out will come the race cards…
Report Post ».. and “I didn’t have enough time to competent legal representation”. Yeah, Charlie, you didn’t know this freight train was coming at you head on….
vonryansexpress
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:14pm“I didn’t have Counsel“ ”I didn’t have Counsel”
Report Post »missy8s
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:14pmDon’t drop the soap chuck!
Report Post »spendthrift
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:13pmThe hammer better drop or his actions will be seen as ok for the elite, but not for the commoners.
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:12pmI shall dance a jig upon hearing this happy news!
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:12pmOh Shoot This will mean an immediate promotion in the Democrat party. He could be Vice-Vice President
Report Post »Rob_M
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:12pmNow we need to see if he gets anything more than a “Bad Rangel.” and goes back to work.
Report Post »seerjfly
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:12pmI bet he pays a fine, says he’s sorry and they forget about the whole matter.
Report Post »jerryod1627
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:26pmIf they fine him, he will figure out a way for us tax payers to pay it!
Report Post »Rita
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:12pmGuilty without due punishment. He still gets to keep his job. I can only imagine what he’s gotten away with for decades. If he can’t bring home the bacon with ear marks what good is he going to be to the brain dead people who voted for him again.
Report Post »Jamestown
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:35pmNo mind black people will not do anything but re elevt the free white people money this black POS brings to them…if DOJ does nothing …he is another oj unpunished….own it black race…he’s your rother…
Report Post »TRUTHSEEKINGAL
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 6:22amCharlie writes the frickin tax laws. Or his aids do. This is another example of capital corruption. Nothing to see just move along folks. Chuckie will take a sabbatical to his junkit in the Dominican Republic. When he returns a suit will be filed by NAACP in his behalf. His rent control tax payer owned apt. lease will be renewed for another year..Reverends Jackson and Sharpton will make rounds condemning the racist unwarranted attcks on this humble servant of 50 yrs.
Report Post »TNT1
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:12pmYeah but will they make an example of him , if not it was nothing but a waste of time
Report Post »Augydoggy
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:55pmWhere is the IRS in this matter? he needs Jail time for that CRIME.. just like the rest of us would recive
Report Post »warner
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:11pmNow what will happen! A slap on the hand and a promise to never do it again! Fire his Butt!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:18pmSorry Warner: I really didn’t try to copy your comment. I don’t read many anyway. But my thoughts exactly. When they start holding them accountable for their actions just like the rest of us. Then and only then we will have a fair and honorable government.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:22amI agree. Sad but true
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:10pmBest news today,so far.
Report Post »nathanhale
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:10pmGreat!!! Maxine!! You’re on deck, honey!!
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:32pmYep Miss Maxine is on DECK, Cant wait to see how this one will play out since Barney Frank is drawn in to the mix of this issue. With Maxine and her hubby having $300,000.00 investment at stake with a bank hubby was involved with and receiving bailout TARP FUNDS. Time will tell.
Report Post »caperman
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:55pmRegardless of the outcome, watching Maxine squirm will be most entertaining.
Report Post »SydrycalWorks
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:51pmNAKED CUCUMBER
Report Post »Soft, gently, she washed and wiped me.
For the first time, I was clean and comely.
Her hands were sure, unlike rough, dirty,
hurried hands before.
Pleasingly, cautiously, she removed my
coat of armor, comforted me.
I ly in my new home. In the night I awoke
to the sourly smell of vinegar, all around me.
My feelings were diced, as the knife, she
yielded, swiftly, cut me to pieces.
Thoughts of sun-filled days, California nights,
oozed from my naked, my drowning, premise.
Here with her. Far from my roots.
Here in her garden. Her New York.
I came. I trusted. I lost.
jb1972
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:10pmThanks Mr Rangle for walking out. You saved a lot of tax payers money by not dragging this out with your sorry excuses for breaking the laws. And by the way……..”Yes they do apply to you too.”
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:31pmOh and his lawyers did not show because they found out they were fraudulently paid from a PAC fund and not his campaign or personal money. Next years ethics line up?
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:46pm& what will his punishment be ? NOTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yep keep stealing & cheating you crooks in DC .
Report Post »mtokoph
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:09pmgee ~ there’s a shocker
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:30pmhell just froze over….
Report Post »hereandnow
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:32pmJust like illegal immigration, he was just trying to make a better life for himself… we should be trying to help him.
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:00amThe shocker would be if the House would do the Right thing and NOT grant him political protection.
Report Post »Guilty on 11 counts out of 13-and speculation i she will be allowed to remain in Office. We went through
this when Taco Bill Run for the border Clinton was caught telling Lies about sex and given protection by the Dems they would not allow anyone but one of their own. What can we expect of Barney’s Party?
But there is “No evidence seen of any ‘corruption’.” –Yeah and I ‘ve got a nuclear powered sub to sell .
RightUnite
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:07pmGood…. Now, find him a nice small cell.
Report Post »halfbrain
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:13pmIn this administration, he’ll get a promotion.
Report Post »Nightstalker
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:13pmIts a shame he wont get any Jail time!
Report Post »van
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:17pmNow let’s see if he goes to jail like any other criminal would or if he simply apologizes and promises not to do it again!!!
Wanna be which it will be?
Report Post »TNT1
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:17pmYeah but will they make an example of him , if not it was nothing but a waste of time and our money
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:21pmYeah, now what will he get for “punishment”? A slap on the wrist for being naughty, and a lecture to don’t do it again? We will be watching, Congress.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:24pmYou seem to be making the assumption that they care about wasting OUR money, let alone time…
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:25pmWill anything of import be done to him?! If I remember past cases, the offender(s) were given a slap on the wrist.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:26pmThis was not a criminal trial. It was just an ethics hearing. Congress has no authority to do anything except put it in the record that he was found guilty of ethics violations.
If you want real justice then a REAL investigation needed to be opened by the justice department, not an impotent ethics committee that is powerless to do anything but wag their finger at him.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:28pmHe should now pay the tax that he owes and serve the time for his crimes.
Report Post »leftiesaredangerous
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:28pmShe sounded apologetic for having to be there and even to find him guilty. I bet they let him off with a slap on the wrist.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:29pmAnd many Americans just re-elected him???? This tells all we need to know about what is wrong in this country. Watch Dennis Praeger explain the problem.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=XNUc8nuo7HI
untameable-kate
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:31pmGreat photo of him at the side. He looked like a little boy getting chastised by his mother. Yet another demoncrat scumbag.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:31pmGood, but the real issue is what they do to him. If he were Joe Q Public, he would be sent to jail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CsEgIfUX0
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:34pmOne can only assume then that if any one of us “little people” decides to evade taxes, we’ll be brought up before an ethics panel and be given a stern lecture?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:35pmOK Charlie, two slaps, back of the hands, 12 inch ruler. Now be a good boy.
Report Post »M633
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:35pmDid Rangel endorse Hillary in the primary for the 2008 election. What about Maxine Waters?
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:44pmIt won’t happen, but he ought to be expelled and lose his retirement benefits. Of course he has had plenty of time to hide the rest of his ill-gotten loot, probably no jail time because he has been such a faithful public servant (sorry, is that racist?), and an asset to his district. Now is it Maxine Waters turn?
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:49pmSharpton and Jackson are on thier way to the Hill right now, setting up a press conference to condemn these white devils that convicted poor Charlie. NAACP will be filing charges, I’m sure – handed directly to Eric Holder for prosecution.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:49pmI think the Dems are just covering his ass before the Repubs take office
Report Post »you know you can’t try a man twice for the same crimes
this will blow over and by the spring totally forgotten mark my words.
orkydorky
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:53pmTax payers should be allowed to sue in civil court for restitution and leave the slap of the hand out of it!
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:54pmWhat about Tiny Tim Giehtner’s Tax evasion ?
Report Post »http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/13/treasury-nominee-timothy-_n_157610.html
even the liberals were against him yet there he is over seeing the banking fraud.
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:03pmAnd now, nothing happens.
Report Post »mimitweetin
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:21pmHe will never pay for his crimes and that is exactly what they are. Representatives of this Great Country are above the law. He should be EXPELLED and all of his benefits and retirement funds stripped!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:34pmWow … those so called “punishements” sound like a joke .. no wonder Rangel walked out … why NOT! Come on guys if it is unethical is one thing but LAWS were broken regarding TAXES .. he needs to get what any of us “little people” would get!
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:46pmOh, this is priceless…
A corrupt, unethical House passing judgement on a corrupt, unethical congressman
Report Post »vault214
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:56pmi agree halfbrain. they wont do crap….our government is awful. we need to go back to the 1770s. i am sick of power hungry people in control.
Report Post »slickmeister
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:00pmLet‘s see if the MSM gives Rangel’s corruption the same focus as say, Tom Delay (who was cleared recently BTW).
Report Post »Jamestown
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:13pmThe Oxy/Moron is “House Ethics”…this man should do prison time…I bet he does nothing but continue…you see he knows what other politicians have committed…they wouldn’t dare penalize a poor black person…
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:24pmWhy are there deliberations secret?? we should hear what was said this is NOT a private matter it’s the PEOPLES matter.. we don’t like the way the rules have been set than ignored.. NOW enough with CLOSED sessions.. OPEN THEM UP..
Report Post »gracentruth
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:38pma small cell and make him pay room and board.
Report Post »123gone
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:39pmProbably a presidential pardon. If any jail at all, it would be one of those posh country club types.
Report Post »Svt4Him
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:00pmWhy try to act fairly, why not try to act justly. And why was that hard, it’s the law.
Report Post »MsMonsoon
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:11pm“Possible punishments include a House vote deploring Rangel’s conduct, a fine and denial of privileges.”
That’s it?! That’s the best they can do?! Guilty of 11 counts of violation of ethics, and they take away his allowance and ground him. You’ve got to be kidding!!! How much time and money when into this sick charade?
Report Post »buzzkill
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:19pmHe knows where all the bodies are buried (so to speak) and I’m guessing not much will happen at all.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:33pmHe probably get about the same punishment as John Ensign for have an affair with a subordinate – who was also the wife of a friend – and then getting his friend another job and giving $100,000 to the wife. Or the same as Rush Limbaugh for doc shopping.
Report Post »SICKANTIRED
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 4:02pmHe should have been Cuffed right then and there…WTF
Report Post »Al Otto
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 4:50pmEthics Violations. Hmmmm… but NO real laws like the common folks must abide to were violate. ahhh there goes those damn house rules again.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 5:09pmORKYDORKY, I agree. In fact, I wish we could go after the Oversight Committee as they come out of office for lack of oversight of Fannie and Freddie. A civil suit filed by people who lost their homes against the committee, the banks and financial institutions who bundled the mortgages and sold them, and anyone else in the line of fire. None of those people have taken any responsibility for their part in the crash and the only thing that they understand is a “hit” in the wallet.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 5:38pmRangel has paid all owed taxes already, and in the twisted logic of the Democrats should be excused from any further repercussions (see Geithner, Daschle, etc.).
The Ethics panel can put Rangel up for expulsion from Congress, but that would have to be voted on by the entire Congress, with 60% of votes needed.
I suspect they will ram a “reprimand” down his throat, that is the compromise he objected to these last two years, and he may be up for legal punishment if the Ethics Panel decides to hand it’s evidence over to the Justice Department/other appropriate authority.
This is going to go very badly for Charlie Rangel, and his delusional rants about the process or his intentions aside, it may very well kill him (he is 80 years old, and this is likely a great shock to his system)…
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:39pmPoster crony for term limits.
Politics is not just hollywood for the ugly, it is sports for the washed up.
The one thing CONgress could get him on would be contempt of CONgress, but they won’t.
Since when has ANYone subject to ANY CONgressional hearing ever walked out of said hearing
and got away with it ?
If you or I did it, we wouldn’t make the door.
Beck is right, nobody in govt should make more $ than a soldier.
If a CONgressman makes a buck, he is overpaid.
I’m voting anyone out who has served ONE term, for the rest of my life.
They are beyond the pale…
Report Post »TRUTHSEEKINGAL
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 6:07amSlap on the hand..Possibly a fine. No where near a just punishment. Mark my words. There will be no justice to speak of.The 2mil. he paid attys. set another sweet deal for the Wrangler!
Report Post »thecommish58
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:13am“Ok we deplore your conduct – now get back to work”…the scum elect scum again and again and again. Until the rule breakers suffer real consequences the beat goes on.
Report Post »nanalynn
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:04amYOU ARE RIGHT; these CRIMINALS deserve jail time!!! Now can we do Maxine Waters next? She stole TARP money and gave it to her husband who is in an ownership position in a very small bank! JAIL TIME!!! How about the other, ‘black caucus’ member who stole taxpayer dollars meant for specific achievement college scholarships and gave the scholarships to all her grandchildren? JAIL TIME!!!
Report Post »Why is there a black caucus? There are no Latino, Asian, White, etc caucus; America is about EQUAL JUSTICE and NOT social justice!
Are we going to look into Chris Dodd & Barney Frank? Let’s depose & expose these two criminals too. In the process, the details of the Freddie Mac / Fannie Mae debacle that caused the crash of the housing market will inevitably come out!
I’m not crying for, ‘witch hunts’. I am just reminding Republicans that NOT ONLY do they have to accomplish ALL promises made in the recent ‘Pledge to America’, but to restore our faith in congress, the criminals need to be exposed. Once Americans understand how we were put in this horrendous state of affairs, we can all make sure it does not happen again. A ‘March to Marxism’ is NOT what the majority of Americans want. The proof came out in the recent election results!!!
SydrycalWorks
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:36amCell, hell. Make him wear one of Glenn Beck’s t-shirts all over D.C. Speaking of Beck’s T-shirts.
I sent a check to Glenn’s people for a t-shirt and they said “We have no way of taking checks.”
HEY GLENN!!! MY MAN! It’s 2010. You know. My bank, your bank. That kind of thing.
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh
Glenn, your next book should be entitled CHECK? WHAT CHECK?
Oh My God, He’s Black…the book…yeah, I’ll take your check Glenn. love ya man.
Report Post »SydrycalWorks
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 11:30amThis feels like a ‘poetry moment’.
Report Post »LETTER TO A VOICE FOR AN ENGENDRER OF GOD
I recognize your voice as one of God’s faithful and true. I may only write to you from outside, as I
am indeed, a stranger to you. In this world I greet you, a stranger from humanities wall. I have no
particular status, no academic titles, no honours of distinction, no ritualistic standing at all.
I come to you behind a glorious study of God’s Word; from the stairway to his stage, where his
Eternal Geometry may be heard. I speak to the Measure of God my Creator; from my line of
descent, I speak to his favor. I speak to man’s intellectual, sinful downfall; to man’s nondoctrinal
basis; his broken tripartite behavior. I speak to the “Theory of Relativity” that Albert Einstein so
brilliantly wrote. To the only fallacy within his discovery; he mistook it, for a theory he himself
evoked. Relativity, is a concept. God himself and no other wrote. He merely shared it, with Sir
Einstein, his(God’s) glory to promote. A note from God; a mirror of matter. His creation must
look upon all that shall matter. The matter, God’s will to be done. The theory of matter say’s all
is relative, all things are interwoven, delicately entwined. We are each of us, a whole, a complete
only if in our center a trinity defines. Matter surrounds our being, measured by a constant a
never changing speed of light. We, as all other matter, must recognize our constant, the never
changing degree in our life. Just as in the structure of matter our enduring resolution shall rely
on our choice of outside, a choice our individual soul has been given the duty to decide. Only
God’s Trinity, his Three to One infinity. The save of we, a perpetuation, a hell, an anguish, the
call. May we but see God’s Relativity. The Father, His Spirit, the Son. All written to the manner
of matter, to all that matter. To an Einstein, they came to call. What a joyous discovery.
God; the Constant of All.
SydrycalWorks
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:24pmWORDSWORTH
Report Post »What of a word absent unheard
from the truths of minds and pens
tis silence dear friend the
foster of no end dreams lost deturred.
Were it not for the hiss of a brainwaved
kiss to the soul of visions that dare
none could suppose one place beauty
grows nor fathom ideas for share.
Then Godspeed thy phrases flee onward
and free to there-on listeners mend.
But what outward may grow the hope
one may know from language whence
found within.
VET35
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:45pmHe will probably end up on the ballot for 2012
Report Post »realindependent
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 4:23pmhe was found guilty of using house letterheads in thanking contributors. its called franking. ewww he is a criminal. throw him in jail. while ****** extroidinaire Vitter gets applause when he goes back to work. George W. Bush admits on live television that he tortured prisoners and wire tapped without warrants and he’s a hero? Larry craig got busted soliciting male patrons in an airport bathroom. Dick /cheney shoots a man in the face while hunting and tells the local cops that the secret service will handle this. and Wrangle is a crook. the hypocracy is amazing on Republicorp party’s side. God help us all….
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