Rep. Rangel’s Ethics Wrangle: Get the Rundown
OPS_admin | Jul 23, 2010 | Comments 0
The House Ethics Committee has finally come out from behind its veil of secrecy and announced that after a two-year investigation, it has found Rep. Charlie Rangel, D.-N.Y., likely violated ethics rules.
As we reported in March, the ethics committee “admonished” Rangel for violating ethics rules against accepting gifts when he attended conferences in the Carribbean in 2007 and 2008, but the investigation into Rangel’s other alleged violations continued.What were those other violations? The committee didn’t disclose the details of what they found, but we’ve kept a full rundown of Rangel’s ethics record.
The House Ethics Committee also announced the creation of a subcommittee to hear the case against Rangel and make a final judgment. It’ll be the first time such a hearing has happened since 2002, pointed out The New York Times. In that 2002 case, former Rep. James Traficant Jr., ended up being expelled from Congress for bribery and served seven years in prison.
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