Posted on 08/28/2009 4:27:37 PM PDT by Devils Avocado
"When normal people happen to "find" their own money, it might mean a twenty left in a winter coat, or discovering change beneath the sofa cushions. But if you're Charlie Rangel, it means doubling your net worth.
"Earlier this month the Chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee "amended" his 2007 financial disclosure form—to the tune of more than a half-million dollars in previously unreported assets and income. That number may be as high as $780,000, because Congress's ethics rules only require the Members to report their finances within broad ranges. This voyage of personal financial discovery brings Mr. Rangel's net worth for 2007 to somewhere between $1.028 million and $2.495 million, while his previous statement came in at $516,015 and $1.316 million."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
As long as the IRS allows everyone else to only report the worth we remember.
WHY aren’t these people PROSECUTED as WE would be?????????
The laws don’t apply to dims. If he was a republican he would already be in jail.
“Sorry, we’d give a crap, but we’re too busy fawning over some dead Marxist. Actually, that’s not entirely true. We don’t give really a crap, period.”
Sincerely,
The State-Controlled Media
He's tossing himself under the bus for a more worthy "so to speak" minority.
The directive is to remove "normal" from the equation with the dimocrat politico's.
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