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July 30, 2010

Rep. Rangel Charged with 13 Ethics Violations
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The House Ethics Committee has charged Democratic Congressman Charles
Rangel of New York with thirteen separate violations of House rules.
Rangel faces a possible ethics trial in mid-September. The charges were
announced on Thursday after settlement talks broke down. Charges against
Rangel include soliciting donations from people with business before his
committee, not paying taxes on a Caribbean home, improperly using a
rent-stabilized apartment in New York as a campaign office, and not
properly disclosing more than $600,000 in income and assets. Attorneys
for Rangel issued a thirty-two-page rebuttal to the charges. Rangel
briefly spoke with reporters on Wednesday.

Rep. Charles Rangel: "Sixty years ago, I survived a Chinese attack in
North Korea, and as a result, I wrote a book that, having survived that,
that I hadn’t had a bad day since. Today I have to reassess that."



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