Dozens of New Tax Errors Revealed, Rangel Blames Press

For the latter half of Charles Rangel's adult life, he's averaged just about one omission a year when filing his taxes. A private government ethics group reported to the ongoing House investigation on Rangel yesterday disclosed their discovery that Rangel has failed to account for more than $239,000 in assets over the last 30 years. He has listed many assets over the years without disclosing when he acquired them.

The Sunlight Foundation found 28 separate instances where he failed to report acquiring, owning or disposing of assets. He also did not list any royalties or advances he may have received from his 2007 book prematurely titled “And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since.”

Yesterday Republican Congressman offered a privileged resolution calling on Rangel to step down from his chairmanship until the House ethics committee completes its investigation into his financial dealings. Politico says that Republicans are trying to use momentum from the Tom Daschle debacle to poke Rangel once again.

Meanwhile Rangel was on the offensive this week, charging back against the ongoing smearing of his name by questioning the journalistic intergrity of the newspaper who has led the campaign against him, the New York Post. Rangel, who previously called out the Times for ignoring facts regarding his recent scandals, says that two investigations that led to reports in the Post came from investigations by the conservative-oriented National Legal Policy Center (as opposed to the conservative-oriented New York Post).

Rangel said, “Newspapers forwent actual, independent reporting, and instead relied on this organization to do the dirty work for them." The NLPS denied that any help they offered the Post was part of any orchestrated campaign to attack Mr. Rangel. And in covering Rangel's latest tax snafus today, the Post chose to ignore the angle altogether.

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By Billy Parker in News on February 5, 2009 3:48 PM

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Future Taliban

Rangel is a piece of shit.

GM

Madoff votes Rangel

Toby von Meistersinger

Washington D.C., a world of criminals who operate above the law and make it.

megs

I live in Rangel's district, and have for years. The reason he keeps getting "elected" is he steals ballots. When he was for Hillary for President, I voted in the morning, around 9:00AM. I voted for Obama. I asked the poll workers what the count was-- meaning how many people had voted. It was 92. The count for the ENTIRE day was reported later in my precinct. It was 92. Harlem, Rangel's district, allegedly voted for Hillary. Yet, you couldn't find these "voters" if you asked, and there were very very few Hillary signs compared to Obama signs.

He can't leave soon enough for most of us. But if our "votes" aren't counted, it won't be because of an election.

ANGRYGOD11

Are you telling us a Republican could win in Harlem?

Are you telling us in 1992, when Bill Clinton won the Presidency with a democratic majority in both houses, Harlem was going to elect a Republican?

All of NYC sent only one congressman to Washington in 2006 and he was from the only borough with a Republican Borough President: Staten Island.

Put down the pipe already.

megs

Traumatic brain injury is the most common cause of the type of cognitive disorder you just demonstrated.

Someone hit you with a pipe? Is that what you're trying to type?

ANGRYGOD11

I'll make it clear: There's no way a black Democrat in Harlem with a huge war chest needs to alter the vote count. He cannot lose, unless he didn't get the nomination.

Your story is bogus.

PTG in nyc

Tgirl, Obama never promised to account for all 435 scumbags in the House. Regardless, Rangel's gotta go.

ides_of_march

I'd be inclined to feel sympathy for the guy but then I remember he's a democrat, the party that loves raising taxes.

ANGRYGOD11

As opposed to Republicans, the party that doesn't have the balls to collect taxes today for what they spend today, so the debt ,with interest, has to be paid tomorrow.

Sorry kiddo!

bsalamon

Let me get this straight. Blagojevich gets removed from office for threatening to sell a senate seat (not actually doing it), while Rangel - for 30 years - has been cheating on his taxes, and he is the chairman of the ways and means committee.

How does he keep getting elected?

EastRiver

I think you know why he keeps getting elected.

Tgirl

change we can believe in...lol

Kreetoo

This rat is as bad as Blagojevich. He's been called out numerous times on tax evasion and he still wants us to believe it's some right-wing conspiracy. Yes, yes, it's the REPUBLICANS' fault that he has so many rent-controlled apartments and that he doesn't declare his assets. Give us a break, Charlie, we're not idiots. Although, we ARE idiots if we let you stay in office another day.