House investigators accused veteran New York Rep. Charles Rangel of 13 violations of congressional ethics standards on Thursday.
The allegations include failure to report rental income from vacation property in the Dominican Republic and hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income and assets on his financial disclosure statements.
Other charges focused on Rangel's use of congressional staff and stationery to raise money for a college center in New York named after him; accepting favors and benefits from the donors that may have influenced his congressional actions; use of a subsidized New York apartment as a campaign office instead of a residence; and misuse of the congressional free mail privilege.
"Even though they are serious charges, I'm prepared to prove that the only thing I've ever had in my 50 years of public service is service," Rangel told reporters Thursday night. "That's what I've done and if I've been overzealous providing that service, I can't make an excuse for the serious violations."
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he can't be punished because then we would all be called "racists" for keeping a black man down
Besides the point that being a Senator or Representative was never intended to be a job that one holds for 40 YEARS (!!) (Robert Byrd, Ed Kennedy, Robert Dole and other imperial, 'better-than-the rest of the peasants"), or the fact that he somehow (its still a mystery) accumulated (on a congressman's salary) vacation property in the Dominican Republic, or acquired apartment buildings and became a multi-millionaire, there are SO MANY DIFFERENT alleged crimes here that for him to say "all I ever did was service", I'm reminded of the "services" that prostitutes perform for their "clients"....He sure did give his constituents some "service", and by extension, "serviced" the rest of us taxpayers rather well, too. How does one "forget" to pay $600,000 in taxes?? Looks like the IRS got "serviced", too, but they were too busy checking on the tax forms of regular citizens making $17,000 to notice this scam. Our government at work for the people, by the people, and of the people. And mostly, of course, for the rich and powerful people.
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