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July 23, 2010

Rep. Rangel to Face Ethics Violations Trial
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The House Ethics Committee has announced plans to put Democratic
Congressman Charles Rangel of New York on trial for allegedly breaking
congressional ethics rules. The New York Times reports part of the trial
will focus on Rangel’s misuse of his office to preserve a tax loophole
worth half-a-billion dollars for an oil executive who pledged a $1
million donation for an educational center being built in Rangel’s
honor. Rangel also faces accusations that he wrongly accepted four
rent-stabilized apartments in Manhattan. The eighty-year-old Rangel has
vowed to fight the charges and plans to seek his twenty-first term in
the fall.



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