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The Censure of Charles Rangel

2010 may have marked the low point in the career of Charles Rangel, the longtime New York Representative and  Congressional member. In November of this year, Rangel was found guilty of 12 ethics violations by the House Ethics Committee. Two of the charges related to how he solicited funds and donations for the Rangel Center from those with business before the Ways and Means Committee; four were for improper use of Congressional letterhead and other House resources in those solicitations; one was for submitting incomplete and inaccurate financial disclosure statements; one was for using one of his Harlem apartments as an office when he had Congressional dealings with the landlord; one was for failing to pay taxes on his Dominican villa.

Rangel insists that he did not do any of these things with self-serving intent; nevertheless, the committee voted to censure Rangel, which is the most severe punishment you can receive as an elected official without being impeached. Rangel gave us his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee earlier in the year. We’re sure Rangel is not the only Congressional member in violation of these type of acts but every once in a while, someone needs to suffer as an example to the rest of ’em. And this year, that one is Rangel.

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