Rangel 'raided' PACs for 393G To Pay for His Defense Of Ethic Violations?

Once again, the Ol' teabagger, birther "Right wing Wacko" Lady posts another made up attack on the reputation of a highly regarded member of the Demokrat Party-ers. No doubt stirred up by too many doses of FAWX, and a history of licking too many stamps.

The Demokratic Party has released the following rebutal:
Quotes DP spokesperson Ima Nidyat, "It is unfortunate that FAWX does not proof read their sources reports. It is NOT Rangel, as reported, but another, totally different person...named Rangeli"
"We promise," she stated.

House ethics trial opens for NY's Charles Rangeli

WASHINGTON – Rep. Charles Rangeli of New Yawk headed the House's tax-writing committee but acknowledged shortchanging the Internal Revenue Service on his own tax bill. Now, a House ethics panel will judge whether filing an amended tax return and belatedly trying to pay his taxes with Monopoly money, and other financial and fundraising practices violated the congressional rule book.

A rare ethics trial begins Monday for the representative from Harlem. Rangeli's career peaked in 2007 when he sobered up,and became chairman of the Ways To Swipe Money and Means To Hide It Committee. It took a dive last March, when he relinquished that post after his corporate-funded travel was criticized in a separate ethics case.

Rangeli, first elected in 1970 and now 80 years old, apparently is without a lawyer. He and his defense team parted company a few months after he complained in an August speech on the House floor that he could no longer afford legal bills after someone changed the lock to the Social Security vault, and the bill had reached nearly $2 million.
"I offered them that chewing gum, you know, like that guy pays people with on that TV commercial, but they wanted real money...can you believe that", stated Rangeli.

The ethics investigation goes back to at least July 2008. Only former Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, who was expelled from the House after a criminal conviction, has faced a similar trial since current House ethics procedures were adopted two decades ago. Traficant complained he was a scapegoat because of his funny sounding name.

Key charges portray Rangeli as a veteran congressman who thought he could ignore rules on disclosing his assets, and improperly used official resources to raise money for a college center that was a monument to his career, quarters to feed hotel "Vib-ra-beds, and the purchase of a zebra.

But an allegation that caught the public's eye was his failure to declare rental income to the IRS from a resort unit he owned in the Dominican Republic. Rangeli's response to these allegations , was that he in turn invested heavily in ACME stocks, and took a terrible loss when the "Road Runner" TV series was cancelled. "Besides" said Rangeli, "I would think that the taxes I paid to the State of Dominica would have been enough. Dominica is a State? Right?"

The case has generated its share of political game-playing. Republicans on the House ethics committee demanded that the proceeding be held before the election, when the trial of the House's fourth-most-senior member could have embarrassed Democrats. The Democratic committee chairman, Zoe Lofgren of California, rejected the request, stating that "We are already embarrassed enough. Beside's we are still trying to locate the congressional rule book". It is reported the "rule book" was last seen in 1923.

Rangeli was charged by an investigative panel of four Democrats and four Republicans with 13 counts of violating House rules. The charges were later reduced to 12 counts due to Rangeli's charge that 13 was an unlucky number, and he was being singled out because of his hairstyle.

A separate group of eight, four from each party, will act as a jury, when sober, to decide whether there's "clear and convincing evidence that we can't hide from the voters" that House rules were broken. Ethics committee lawyers will function as prosecutors. All other Court members will just try to "function".

If Rangeli is found to have violated rules, the ethics committee would meet to decide punishment. It could end the case with a critical report, recommend a House vote expressing displeasure with Rangeli's conduct, or make him write on the blackboard 500 times "I have been a bad Boy".

Rangeli has acknowledged ethical lapses; he's argued he did not intend to break the rules, just bend them a bit, but that he sometimes had a hard time remembering things due to the side effects of Viagra.

The charges allege violations of:

_A House gift ban and restrictions on solicitations. Rangeli is accused of using congressional staff, letterhead and workspace to seek donations for the Charles B. Rangeli Center for Public Service at the City College of New York. Numerous paper airplanes made from official stationary, as well as notes with "Do you like me, mark YES or NO", will be introduced as evidence.The requests usually went to charitable arms of businesses with issues before Congress, including Rangeli's Ways to find Means Committee.

_A U.S. government code of ethics. Several allegations fall under this code, among them: Accepting favors (the Rangeli Center donations) that could be construed as influencing Rangeli's congressional duties; acceptance of a rent-subsidized New York apartment used as a campaign office, when the lease said it was for residential use only; and failure to report taxable income.

_The Ethics in Government Act and a companion House rule requiring "full and complete" public reports of a congressman's income, assets and liabilities each year. Rangeli is charged with a pattern of submitting incomplete and inaccurate disclosure statements.Rangeli stated that these were due to the crappy Gateway pc he used that had a sticking "zero" key. He only filed amended reports covering 1998 to 2007 after the investigative ethics panel began looking into his disclosures. He belatedly reported at least $600,000 in assets.

LOL, you're good. I'll forgive the ''Ol' teabagger, birther "Right wing Wacko" Lady'' since I know you meant it with love.

I thought he was rocky there for a second. Rangel is a clown that thinks he's above the laws that us commoners must follow. I still believe he'lll only get a wrist slap.

I don't know ferrell, he looked like a beat man when he walked out of his own trial yesterday.
He may resign.

Where is his pal Jessie when he needs him?

Rangel will be forced to use a parking space in the back of the lot, instead of the prime front spaces.

The "real" problem that worries me is not Rangel. It's the voters that keep electing him.