Posted on 06/23/2009 9:14:26 PM PDT by Libloather
RANGEL: 'NIECE' NO KIN OF MINE
By PHILIP MESSING
Last updated: 10:53 am June 23, 2009
A "crook"-friendly Port Authority cop who got lenient treatment from superiors believing she was Rep. Charles Rangel's niece is not related to him, the congressman said yesterday.
PA brass had walked on eggshells while probing Lt. Coretta Smith's alleged attempts to get a mentally disturbed gunman on a flight out of JFK and to spring a trio of suspected pot smugglers from jail, sources said.
"Not only am I not related to this so-called niece, [but] I don't know her and don't know anyone who does know her," Rangel said. "I have relatives I have never seen, but this is not one of them."
PA Police sources had identified Smith to The Post as Rangel's niece.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Yeah, I (GAG) trust him...
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Impeached ex-President Clinton showed us how it is done. Deny, deny, deny, then when the truth finally comes out, it's old news, nothing to see here, move along.
Does having a bad seed in the family make Rangel also bad? His actions speak louder than anything else. His family is kind of irrelevant unless it was this niece who encouraged her uncle to enter into the life of crime he has assumed as an elected official in DC.
Does she say, “ Forty million taxpayer dollars? That’s chump change!” in a raspy voice a lot?
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