Posted on 08/29/2009 5:18:36 AM PDT by jimbo123
Rep. Charles Rangel claimed on mortgage papers that a Harlem brownstone was his principal residence -- even though he was living elsewhere at the time, The Post has learned.
When the Democrat -- who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee -- took out the mortgage in 1990, he said the property on West 132nd Street was his "principal residence," records show.
But Rangel has been living since the 1970s in Harlem's Lenox Terrace apartment complex, where he improperly amassed four rent-stabilized properties.
State law requires that rent-regulated apartments be the tenant's residence.
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Charlie is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg and all these press disclosures make it seem like there is room opening up under for him that ol’ obama bus
Oh, come on, it’s an honest mistake. That whole “Magna Carta” concept of even the noblemen being subject to the law is so “13th century” anyway. Think of all the good Charlie’s done for the poor. He’s just done well by doing good. It’s racism, that’s what it is.
one can hope but man them pols looks out for one another.
Why isn’t this guy in jail?
(Ha ha - I crack myself up.)
if the poor thought it through,those rent controlled apts could have been occupied by someone else all these yrs. instead of paying him a markup. hmmmm,stealing from his own.
It will be funny to see Charlie spin his mortgage fraud into racial victimhood.
Oh wait! Charlie’s a DEMOCRAT! Therefore, he didn’t LIE, he simply ‘mis-spoke’!
We must move on -past these ‘little mistakes’ and get about the business of the country at this crucial time in our history! There are GENUINE crisis’ out there and we shouldn’t be wasting the tax-payers time and money with partisan investigations spurred on by politics of personal destruction!
;-) How’s that, libs?
Well, it was his principal residence before it wasn’t. Details, details...
If you think this investigation will lead to anything other than a wrist slap you would be very wrong.
Just a little graft! The House Ethics panel LOVES Charlie Rangel... you watch.
Hey,give the guy a break.The building was in Spanish Harlem.
Once,they started speaking Spanish-Sportin’Life was otta
there!
Sounds like a case for Holder’s Department of Just Us.He’ll be all over this in a heartbeat...I just know it!
Rules?
Bah!
Rules are for the little people.
Silly Conservatives...
Laws no longer apply to Democrats, doncha’ know.
They can be as openly corrupt as they like, and unless they are a blue-dog, the media will still support them. What they “do” is just too important to let little, insignificant things like CRIMES interrupt their work.
They are more equal than you, entitled to be treated like Princes.
Dis ain’t America no mo!
Rangle ken do what he want!
Yet another glaring example of how party affiliation is meaningless....
These fools must have watched a Oliver Stone movie JFK.
Where the lie was JFK was going to dismantle the CIA.
Now does this sack of excrement look like someone who gives a flyin f**k what you racists think of his financial shenanigans? When it gets too hot in the ethics committee Charlie will resort to yelling "racism!" and do the Bimini Bugout like his mentor and hero Adam Clayton Powell.
This scumbag should be forced to resign ASAP!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
“Rangel sold the brownstone at 74 W. 132nd St. to Bethel AME Church in 2004, although several of his relatives continue to live there.”
hmmmmm...sold to a church to avoid even more taxes and then sticks his ‘relatives’ in the house. ?? Something doesn’t smell right about this little tax haven either.
"This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history" - Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Press Release, November 16, 2006
As for the Big Kahuna Obama, his tax pledges are becoming so bent and interpreted that there are few indeed who want to even talk about them from the Administration. Of course there are trillions and trillions of reasons why such stimulating talk needs to be avoided!
You are all racists and you are picking on Charlie.
LMAO
The ethics Committee, Bwahahahaha, What a joke.
The Congressional Black Caucus, Ahahahaha, funnier still.
President Barrack Hussein Obama.
The joke isnt funny anymore
Now isn’t that a prize?
They will wash each others hands and the corrupt establishmedia will sweep it under the rug.
Pray for America and Our Troops
How long did it take ‘them’ to prosecute the Jefferson fellow when they had him on film taking a bribe from one of “The Good Guys”and they also had the frozen booty. The law in this country is a joke. Justice should be swift. Is there not some law somewhere that says it should be swift?
Congress yet again shows that it is above the law and thumbs its nose at the electorate.
Hey, Charlie's a demoCRAP. The rules don't apply.
In other words, after the 'Ethics (sic) Committee' has ignored all the evidence and pronounced him as clean and pure as wind-driven snow, the press is going to have to choke on those stubborn little facts that mean nothing to politicians, in general, and Democrats, in particlar.
For sure. Evil Whites trying to keep a good Black man down.
Project “Zimbabwe West” is on track and on schedule!
He's Black and it's racist to hold Black people responsible for anything.
Why print “untruth” instead of “lie”? Not enough testicular fortitude down there at the newspaper? What a shocker!
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