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Title: Rangel In Deeper With New Ethics Charge
Source:
NYP
URL Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ ... _ethics_NN5qV3bXesmA99ZPPDytiO
Published: Dec 6, 2010
Author: ISABEL VINCENT & MELISSA KLEIN
Post Date: 2010-12-06 11:51:19 by Murron
Keywords: None
Views: 2005
Comments: 2
Rangel In Deeper With New Ethics Charge The Federal Election Commission is investigating a complaint that Rep. Charles Rangel improperly used his National Leadership PAC to fund his legal defense on ethics charges for which he was censured Thursday, The Post has learned. The FEC is acting on a complaint by the National Legal and Policy Center filed after The Post reported last month that Rangel paid nearly $400,000 from his PAC. Lawmakers are only allowed to use money in their individual campaign funds for legal fees, or they can set up legal defense funds for such costs. Rangel appeared before the House Ethics Committee last month saying he could no longer afford legal counsel after already burning through $2 million. The center expects to file a second complaint this week contending that Rangel's PAC money included at least $195,000 in donations from lobbyists with business before the House Ways & Means Committee, of which he is a member. Yesterday, the Harlem pol said he's ready to put the incident behind him. "In all fairness, I was not found guilty of corruption, I did not go to bed with kids, I did not hurt the House speaker, I did not start a revolution against the United States of America, I did not steal any money, I did not take any bribes, and that is abundantly clear," he said.
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#1. To: Murron (#0)
Liberal assholes forced Palin to resign with their unending frivolous ethics charges she had to pay to defend against. Why don't you do the same and save yourself some cash, Charley.
It doesn't matter. He is black,he is a Dim congressman,and he is from NYC and Harlem. He could eat white babies on live tv and nothing would happen to him.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Rangel appeared before the House Ethics Committee last month saying he could no longer afford legal counsel after already burning through $2 million.
#2. To: Murron (#0)
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