Posted by
Roxanna M. on Friday, September 25, 2009 10:53:44 AM
We all know by now that Charles Rangel (D-NY) is a one-man crime spree, from not reporting income to the illegal use of rent-controlled apartments in New York to the illegal use of his office to raise funds to build a monument to himself to the submission of phony financial disclosures to the giving of campaign contributions to those on the House Ethics Committee currently investigating him.
He has done all of this willfully, gleefully, and with complete abandon, confident that he is above the law. And, even if he is found not to be above the law, he is confident that the most he will receive from his party-controlled House is a "No, no. Bad dog!" Then, he will go back to doing what he does best: padding his own nest while pretending to be a member of the United States House of Representatives.
But, why isn't anyone asking how he came to afford a villa in the Dominican Republic? A condo in Florida? A building in Harlem that he reportedly sold for $1 million? Real property in New Jersey? A bank account with $250,000 in it? Another bank account with $250,000 in it?
No wonder he's trying to buy off those investigating him. What else might be found if people keep digging?