It’s About #$&*^% Time!
The house “ethics” Committee voted yesterday to put Charlie Rengal on trial for ethics violations. Not the speediest of events, the trial will be in about two months. On the other hand, it’s a lot faster than the decision to try Rangel at all.
Rangel (D-N.Y.) has been under the House ethics committee’s microscope since early 2008 after it was reported that he may have used his House position to benefit his financial interests. Two of the most serious inquiries have focused on Rangel’s failure to declare $239,000 to $831,000 in assets on his disclosure forms, and on his effort to raise money for a private center named after him at City College of New York using his congressional letterhead.
So, in 2008 it was widely known that he was using his position in congress for his own gain, but allowed to stay there for two friggin’ years? Well, at least he wasn’t taking gifts from people with business before congress or in a powerful position where he could inflict damage on the country. Oh, wait, my bad.
In March, Rangel reluctantly stepped down as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee — a week after the ethics panel ruled in a separate case that he had broken congressional gift rules by accepting trips to conferences in the Caribbean that were financed by corporate interests. The panel said that, at a minimum, Rangel’s staff knew about the corporate backing for the 2007 and 2008 trips — and that the congressman was therefore responsible.
My question is why isn’t Rangel facing charges in federal court instead of the house? Of course, he is in good company.
It has been eight years since the House last opened such proceedings against a member. That happened when Jim Traficant (D-Ohio) rejected the ethics committee’s findings that he violated rules. He was later expelled by his peers. Before that, the last member expelled was Michael Myers (D-Pa.), removed by his colleagues in 1980 as a result of the Abscam scandal.
We can only hope that a similar fate awaits Charlie. At 80, I doubt he can launch a recovery effort like Traficant has.
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The man is an absolute parasite on society who represents very little other than his own interests….
There could be justice if he serves hard time but he won’t…Those in DC take care of their own, even the ones who are stupid enough to get caught…
YES!!!
“Draining the swamp”…”most transparent Congress ever”…now if my Congress critter would return the money she got from him.
Unless they strip him of his seat like his buddy Clayton Powell, which I doubt will happen, the people of his district will be lemmings like the people in DC that kept reelecting Marion Barry to office and reelect him also. even if they refer the case to DOJ, (we know what will happen there) it will take forever and a day to bring him to trial. He probably has to many skeletons on Botox Nancy and she will quietly insure the charges are dropped. Him, Barney and Nancy what a trio
It will never get to DOJ, and if it gets in the door there, it will die at the door. Rangel is black. Holder is black. and Nobama is sorta black. No further explanation needed as to special treatment by this regime and black shenanigans.