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The Audacity Of Rangel

Mike

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:lol:


Congressman Charles Rangel, whose ethics trial starts tomorrow, appears to have improperly used political-action committee money to pay for his defense.

Rangel tapped his National Leadership PAC for $293,000 to pay his main legal-defense team this year. He took another $100,000 from the PAC in 2009 to pay lawyer Lanny Davis. Two legal experts told The Post such spending is against House rules. "It's a breach of congressional ethics," one campaign-finance lawyer said.

Washington, DC, political lawyer Cleta Mitchell said there is "no authority for a member to use leadership PAC funds as a slush fund to pay for personal or official expenses." Leadership PACs are typically used by politicians to donate money to other candidates.

But Rangel seems to have run afoul of House ethics rules. Lawmakers are generally allowed to use campaign cash to pay their lawyers, but this is limited to money in their personal campaign committee and they must ask permission first, the campaign-finance lawyer said. "The only campaign funds that a member may use to pay for congressional expenses are funds of his or her principal campaign committee -- not the funds of a leadership PAC or a multicandidate committee," according to the House Ethics Manual.

Legal fees tied to a campaign, election or performance of official duties are considered congressional expenses. "Accepting money or payment for legal expenses from any other source, including a PAC, would be a gift and is barred by the House rules," the lawyer said. The Ethics Committee had no comment.

Rangel's office refused to comment on the PAC money. On top of the $393,000 in PAC funds, records show Rangel yanked $1.4 million from his campaign coffers in 2009 and 2010 to pay the firm Zuckerman Spaeder, his main legal-defense team, and $100,000 in 2009 to pay Davis' firm.

He also spent $147,577 for Washington, DC, lawyer John Kern and $174,303 for Watkins, Meegan, Drury & Co., a firm that offers forensic accounting and legal services
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An eight-member ethics subcommittee of four Democrats and four Republicans will convene at 9 a.m. to hear the 13 charges. They include failure to disclose and pay taxes on his vacation home in the Dominican Republic; his use of a rent-regulated Harlem apartment as a campaign office; and using congressional stationery to raise money for the Rangel Center at City College.
 

Steve

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Ethics Trial Continues After Rangel Excuses Himself

WASHINGTON (CBS 2 / 1010 WINS / WCBS 880/ AP) — A panel of Rep. Charlie Rangel’s peers in Congress are continuing the ethics trial against him after a fiery and frustrated Rangel excused himself, arguing he would not represent himself and had not been given enough time to hire counsel.

When Rangel walked into the trial alone and stood waiting, alone, for over five minutes, thumbing through a pile of legal papers, it was clear he didn’t have a lawyer. He said he was tapped out, having already paid $2 million and needed time to raise money for his defense.

“My role here is as a respondent and I am not here representing myself. I’ve been a lawyer long enough to know that it is very, very unwise for any person, a lawyer or a judge, to be his own counsel at a proceeding like this,” Rangel said

Rangel said “50 years of public service has to suffer” because he did not have the money himself to pay for a lawyer, that he did not have enough time to cultivate a legal defense fund, and that free counsel offered to him would be considered a gift and therefore prohibited.

Several members of the committee angrily criticized Rangel’s lawyers for leaving the case just weeks before the hearing.

the Harlem Democrat’s coffers seem to have dried up. He has said publicly that he had to fire the prestigious law firm hired to defend him because he ran out of money.
 

Tam

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He is a crook, and I would almost bet he is going to try get the ruling tossed as the government didn't give him time to find a lawyer to represent him. :roll:
 

Tam

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Rangel was found Guilty this morning :clap: and this afternoon he is claiming he didn't get due process as the ethics committee didn't allow him to defend himself. :roll: Just what did I say yesterday :wink: The MAN IS A CROOK AND HE WILL PLAY THE SYSTEM UNTIL THE DAY HE DIES. :mad:
 

Steve

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On Friday night’s CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) found a new critic: President Obama. Obama said he finds the ethics charges against Rangel “very troubling” and added that he hopes the 20-term lawmaker will step down from office with his dignity intact. “He’s somebody who’s at the end of his career,” said Obama. “I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity. And my hope is that it happens.”

jingo2 said:
He needs to say his good-byes and leave.

you liberals are always in lockstep with each other.. just sweep the old guy under the rug, shove him under a bus.. and be gone with him..

NO I say... stick up for him like Nancy did.. stand up to the voters and say screw you we have an agenda and we need all the votes crooked, convicted,. it doesn't matter as long as he votes for Pilosi..

a long trial was good enough for willie (the money is frozen) Jefferson.. it can be good enough for Charlie (I got the Caddie and Villa) Rangel..

let the guy speak... let him raise some mo money... give him a decent lawyer, cause he wasn't stupid enough to defend himself,,, ... and let him be heard...

It's not like he was guilty on every count... or had decent representation.. just cause the check bounced was not reason for them to quit*...




*ooops... I guess their donation (gift) couldn't be accepted so he fired them..
 

Tam

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Mike said:
jingo2 said:
He needs to say his good-byes and leave.
No, he needs to go to prison for the rest of his life.

Not that I don't agree with you Mike but Prison will never happen. I doubt it will even be mentioned in the penalty recommodations. He will likely get a slap on the wrist and send on his merry way to milk the system for a few more years or until his cold dead body is stuck in the ground like Byde and Kennedy. Dems do not care what is swimming in their swamp as long as that swamp scum can push their agenda.
 

Lonecowboy

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Tam said:
Mike said:
jingo2 said:
He needs to say his good-byes and leave.
No, he needs to go to prison for the rest of his life.

Not that I don't agree with you Mike but Prison will never happen. I doubt it will even be mentioned in the penalty recommodations. He will likely get a slap on the wrist and send on his merry way to milk the system for a few more years or until his cold dead body is stuck in the ground like Byde and Kennedy. Dems do not care what is swimming in their swamp as long as that swamp scum can push their agenda.

“He’s somebody who’s at the end of his career,” said Obama. “I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity.

ooooooooooops!!!!! too late!!!
You have to have a career filled with dignity to end it with dignity!
he needs to be proseceuted to the full extent of the law-
but I'm like Tam and doubt very much we will see it happen.
Kinds like Blagovich- Rangel knows too much about too many!
 
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Lonecowboy said:
Tam said:
Mike said:
No, he needs to go to prison for the rest of his life.

Not that I don't agree with you Mike but Prison will never happen. I doubt it will even be mentioned in the penalty recommodations. He will likely get a slap on the wrist and send on his merry way to milk the system for a few more years or until his cold dead body is stuck in the ground like Byde and Kennedy. Dems do not care what is swimming in their swamp as long as that swamp scum can push their agenda.

“He’s somebody who’s at the end of his career,” said Obama. “I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity.

ooooooooooops!!!!! too late!!!
You have to have a career filled with dignity to end it with dignity!
he needs to be proseceuted to the full extent of the law-
but I'm like Tam and doubt very much we will see it happen.

Kinds like Blagovich- Rangel knows too much about too many!

I agree 100%- will never happen because he knows too much on folks that follow both cults ( the "D"'s and the "R"s ) and all the intrading they have done for years- especially on Pork Projects- and some of which of the same now call themselves "born agains" as Tea Partyiers :roll: :lol: :lol:
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
Lonecowboy said:
Tam said:
Not that I don't agree with you Mike but Prison will never happen. I doubt it will even be mentioned in the penalty recommodations. He will likely get a slap on the wrist and send on his merry way to milk the system for a few more years or until his cold dead body is stuck in the ground like Byde and Kennedy. Dems do not care what is swimming in their swamp as long as that swamp scum can push their agenda.

“He’s somebody who’s at the end of his career,” said Obama. “I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity.

ooooooooooops!!!!! too late!!!
You have to have a career filled with dignity to end it with dignity!
he needs to be proseceuted to the full extent of the law-
but I'm like Tam and doubt very much we will see it happen.

Kinds like Blagovich- Rangel knows too much about too many!

I agree 100%- will never happen because he knows too much on folks that follow both cults ( the "D"'s and the "R"s ) and all the intrading they have done for years- especially on Pork Projects- and some of which of the same now call themselves "born agains" as Tea Partyiers :roll: :lol: :lol:

I guess we can hope that the 80 some NEW REPUBLICAN Congressmen that were voted in on Nov 2 will hold their counterparts feet to the fire and give you that CHANGE you expected Obama, Pelosi and Reid to deliver.

BTW have you tried the Tester Tester Website yet Oldtimer? I hear it reveals alot about the man.
 

loomixguy

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Oldtimer said:
I agree 100%- will never happen because he knows too much on folks that follow both cults ( the "D"'s and the "R"s ) and all the intrading they have done for years- especially on Pork Projects- and some of which of the same now call themselves "born agains" as Tea Partyiers :roll: :lol: :lol:

And, since November 2, some of his colleagues can now call themselves "unemployed as of January 2011", cause they got their asses thrown out of office! :lol: :p :p

Here is the Charlie Rangel emoticon: :disagree: He can sell some of his properties and hire himself "adequate legal representation!"

Old B-tard.
 

Tam

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loomixguy said:
Oldtimer said:
I agree 100%- will never happen because he knows too much on folks that follow both cults ( the "D"'s and the "R"s ) and all the intrading they have done for years- especially on Pork Projects- and some of which of the same now call themselves "born agains" as Tea Partyiers :roll: :lol: :lol:

And, since November 2, some of his colleagues can now call themselves "unemployed as of January 2011", cause they got their asses thrown out of office! :lol: :p :p

Here is the Charlie Rangel emoticon: :disagree: He can sell some of his properties and hire himself "adequate legal representation!"

Old B-tard.

Next up is Maxine Waters and I hope she recieves the same fate as Rangel. But you can bet if these two recieve too harsh of punishment the Black Causus will have something to say about it. :wink:
 

jingo2

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Steve said:
On Friday night’s CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) found a new critic: President Obama. Obama said he finds the ethics charges against Rangel “very troubling” and added that he hopes the 20-term lawmaker will step down from office with his dignity intact. “He’s somebody who’s at the end of his career,” said Obama. “I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity. And my hope is that it happens.”

jingo2 said:
He needs to say his good-byes and leave.

you liberals are always in lockstep with each other.. just sweep the old guy under the rug, shove him under a bus.. and be gone with him..

NO I say... stick up for him like Nancy did.. stand up to the voters and say screw you we have an agenda and we need all the votes crooked, convicted,. it doesn't matter as long as he votes for Pilosi..

a long trial was good enough for willie (the money is frozen) Jefferson.. it can be good enough for Charlie (I got the Caddie and Villa) Rangel..

let the guy speak... let him raise some mo money... give him a decent lawyer, cause he wasn't stupid enough to defend himself,,, ... and let him be heard...

It's not like he was guilty on every count... or had decent representation.. just cause the check bounced was not reason for them to quit*...




*ooops... I guess their donation (gift) couldn't be accepted so he fired them..

Don't you want to cut reckless spending in the gov't? Or was that just lip service and ass kissin?

A trial would be long, and VERY costly....... He needs to man up....pack his box of stuff....and leave.

He'll leave with a HUGE retirement, gov't backed and all the perks of ofc. He won't be hurting one bit.

Why add to the expense with giving him a gov't paid lawyer?
 

jingo2

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Larrry said:
jingo2 said:
Larrry said:
You Racist

HOW IN THE HELL DO YOU COME UP WITH THAT???

Come on now don't play dumb. If you are against someone black you have to be a Racist Thats what the lefties are saying about the tea party and those who didn't vote for the big o. You Racist

I'm against crooks...no matter their color
 
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