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It's a circus. Charlie Rangel kills his parents and then throws himself at the mercy of the Court because he is an orphan. OK, not exactly but metaphorically. Charlie Rangel walked out of his ethics trial yesterday morning. Complaining bitterly that he was denied the right to have an attorney present, an emotional Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) walked out of his highly publicized public ethics trial Monday morning, an unexpected twist in the ethics inquiry that has tarnished Rangel’s four-decade congressional career. But Rangel DID have legal representation. He fired them. Popularity aside, the Harlem Democrat’s coffers seem to...

WASHINGTON – Rep. Charles Rangel, once one of the most influential House members, was convicted Tuesday on 11 counts of breaking ethics rules and now faces punishment. An ethics panel of eight House peers deliberated over two days before delivering a jarring blow to the 20-term New York Democrat's career. The 80-year-old Rangel was charged with 13 counts of financial and fundraising misconduct.

A House ethics panel has convicted Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on 11 of 13 counts of violating House ethics rules. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the adjudicatory subcommittee and the full House ethics committee, announced the decision late Tuesday morning following an abbreviated public trial of the 20-term lawmaker and less than a day of closed-door deliberations. "We have tried to act with fairness, led only by the facts and the law," Lofgren said. "We believe we have accomplished that mission." The panel will recommend a punishment, then the full ethics panel will have to convene a sanctions...

It has been a tough morning for Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), who walked out of his ethics trial earlier when he wasn't allowed to more time to get a lawyer. Yet Rangel did have a good moment, of sorts, when the top ethics committee lawyer said he wasn't corrupt. Sloppy, but not corrupt. "I see no evidence of corruption," said Blake Chisam, the top ethics committee lawyer, about Rangel. Chisam's statement was in response to questioning by Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.). Butterfield is serving on the eight-member panel hearing the Rangel case. "It's hard to answer the question of personal...

It's still trickling in... guilty of AT LEAST ONE, maybe 11 violations.

A House ethics subcommittee found longtime Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel guilty Tuesday on multiple violations of House rules. On Monday, Rangel, D-New York, walked out of the House ethics subcommittee trial, complaining he has not had sufficient time to hire a new legal team to respond to alleged ethics allegations. The subcommittee rejected Rangel's request to delay the hearing until a new defense team is assembled. Rangel faced 13 allegations, include failing to pay taxes on a home in the Dominican Republic, misuse of a rent-controlled apartment for political purposes and improper use of government mail service and letterhead.

The ethics case against Rep. Charlie Rangel concluded Monday, after the clearly angered Democrat from New York walked out of the hearing and the ethics committee decided that it already had enough "indisputable" evidence to decide quickly, and in secret, whether Rangle is guilty of 13 ethics charges against him. The panel's decision to forgo days of testimony by dozens of witnesses cuts short what would have likely been a highly publicized and embarrassing trial for both Rangel and House Democrats, who won a majority in the House in 2006, in part, by promising a more ethical Congress.Now in the...