Posted on 10/31/2009 6:57:08 AM PDT by Libloather
Rangel: Ethics talks unrelated to personal finance issues
By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 30, 2009; 11:37 AM
House ethics committee investigators have interviewed Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee whose personal finances have been under investigation for more than a year, a committee document from July reveals.
Committee staff met with Rangel in late July. In an interview with The Washington Post, the lawmaker said the meeting concerned only a recent trip to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten that he and four members of the Congressional Black Caucus took last November.
Rangel said he has not been interviewed by the committee to discuss other elements of the investigation, which involve his personal finances and whether House resources were improperly used to raise funds for a college center named for him.
However, committee staff members have taken a trip to the New York city housing offices, according to the ethics committee document.
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The investigation has expanded into several other areas of his finances, including his decision to amend financial disclosure forms earlier this year revealing accounts that held more than $500,000 in them that had not been previously disclosed.
The committee also has interviewed Rangel's top aide, James Capel, who in July belatedly filed several years' worth of financial disclosure. The most senior aides must file the same disclosure reports just as lawmakers do every spring.
The committee also has interviewed Steven Rangel, the lawmaker's son. The document does not make clear what the interview covered. News reports last year said that his father's campaign committee paid nearly $60,000 to an Internet consulting firm owned by Steven Rangel. He now works as an aide to the House oversight committee.
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Nancy is preparing throw Charlie under the bus...can’t have him as chair of Ways and Means in an election year...doesn’t look good.
If I were him, I’d retire to my island and off shore bank accounts. At his age, with the money he’s stolen, he could have a pretty good last ten years.
King Rat... 
Still waiting for the IRS to do its job....if this were an ordinary citizen, do you think there would be no penalties assessed and no investigation??? Who did he pay off in the IRS???
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