September 5, 8:06 PMOrange County Conservative ExaminerGregory Dail



The arrogant elitist Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has proven to epitome of a scumbag politician. This arrogant New York politician should be made the poster child for corrupt politicians and Americans need to demand he made a example of. Over and over he avoids the law and has become very arrogant, he knows he's untouchable

Let’s run through some of the Rangel wranglings of late:
1. Politico reported late last week that Rangel kicked $80,000 to his son to make cheap websites for Rangel's Congressional campaign and National Leadership PAC. The sites have a bare-bones design, are fraught with basic errors ("Sen. Barak Obama", and should have cost less than $100 to make, according to Politico's resident expert.
2. The Washington Post first revealed in July that Rangel used Congressional letterhead to set up meetings soliciting donations to The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service. The center has been derided as Rangel's "Monument to Me," after the congressman jump-started the project with a $1.9 million earmark
3. Late last month, the Times found that Rangel used his chairmanship heft to retain a tax loophole for a $1 million donor to the center.
4. Among the solicited donors for his Center for Public Service were companies with financial interests under consideration by Rangel's Ways and Means Committee.
5. Four of his Harlem apartments, one used as a campaign office, were each being claimed as a primary residence to receive below-market, rent-controlled rates
6. Rangel failed to report $75,000 of income from a Dominican resort (he was later forced to pay $10,800 in back taxes)
7. Rangel's Mercedes, with an expired registration and no license plates, has been parked for years in a "coveted section" of a House parking garage near his office, in violation of House rules
8. Rangel claimed another "primary residence" in D.C., receiving a tax break for which Members of Congress are ineligible. Tax lawyers confirm it's illegal to claim two primary residences - or, in Rangel's case, five.
9. he New York Post has reported that Rangel did not declare the income that he earned from an apartment building in the Caribbean that he and several major campaign contributors are investors in. The income that Rangel received from this investment could be as much as seventy five thousand dollars a year as noted by the New York Post
10. Equally interesting is his claim that he didn’t know that the developer of the Dominican Republic villa had converted his $52,000 mortgage to an interest-free loan in 1990. That would seem to violate House rules on gifts, which say Members may only accept loans on “terms that are generally available to the public.”
11. Rangel filed a grossly misleading financial disclosure report for 2007 -- failing to report at least half a million dollars in assets.
12. a credit union account worth at least $250,000 and maybe as much as $500,000 -- and didn't report it. He had investment accounts worth about the same, which he also didn't report.
13. failed to report assets totaling more than $1 million on legally required financial disclosure forms going back to at least 2001. These assets include several “empty” lots in Glassboro, N.J., valued at more than $3,000; a stock fund worth at least $250,000; an IRA account with more than $250,000 in assets; and investment fund account worth between $50,000 and $100,000.
14. Rangel also downgraded – without explaining why – the value of his Dominican Republican vacation home. In his original version of the 2007 report, Rangel declared that home was worth between $250,000 to $500,000.
15. But in the latest version of his 2007 report, Rangel valued the Dominican home at between $100,000 to $250,000.
16. The ethics committee recently broadened the Rangel investigation to include Caribbean trips taken by Rangel and four other lawmakers. The panel is seeking to determine if the trips complied with the House’s ban on corporate-funded travel.
17. CBS 2 HD has learned of more alleged back-door dealings and political power peddling by Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel. CBS 2 HD has discovered that since ethics probes began last year the 79-year-old congressman has given campaign donations to 119 members of Congress, including three of the five Democrats on the House Ethics Committee who are charged with investigating him. Charlie’s “angels” on the committee include Congressmen Ben Chandler of Kentucky, G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina and Peter Welch of Vermont. All have received donations from Rangel.($20K plus each)
18. $1 million from the sale of a building on 132nd Street that no deed was transferred. The city records show that Rangel still owns the building.
19. discrepancies in the value listed for a property he owns in Sunny Isles, Florida
20. Quid pro quo issues with Eugene Isenberg involving thousands of dollars
21. Unreported stock in Yum! Brands and PepsiCo,
22. Unreported property in Glassboro, New Jersey.
23. Rangel also did not pay property taxes on two of his New Jersey properties.

See what Crooked Charlie has to say about his crimes!




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