Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) has been found guilty on 11 ethics charges, ending a two-year investigation into his personal finances.
A special eight-member panel of the House ethics committee, after deliberating for roughly six hours, found that there was “clear and convincing evidence” that Rangel had violated House ethics on 11 of the 13 charges he faced heading into a rare public ethics trial.
Rangel, 80, walked out of his ethics trial on Monday, complaining that he had not been given enough time to find new legal counsel after parting ways with his previous law firm last month.
The full ethics committee will now consider punishment for Rangel, and possibly refer the case to the House floor with a recommendation for a sanction against the lawmaker.
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This bum was just re-elected in a landslide.
Apparently he has the one and only “quality” his constituents care about.
Hamayveen yaveen.
Is this bum going to sit in federal prison? Or, is it a topsy turvy world and only innocent people like Rubashkin sit in prison?
How about impeachment which will get his thieven hands off our purse strings. Through the bum out and try to recoup what he has stole.
AinOhdMilvado and Your Sister – Why, when it’s a Yid who gets caught up in an ethically challenged position you’re often the “constituents” who scream out about all the good things the miscreant has done for the community. I mean, what exactly are your standards? Or, do you want to have it both ways – one standard for Yidden and another standard for Goyim?
Yitzchoky, I believe what you meant to say is “How about impeachment which will get his THIEVING hands off our purse strings. THROW the bum out and try to recoup what he has STOLEN.”
Oy – When will yeshivas teach our children basic English?!
Nothing will happen. He may get censured or something like that & he’ll be back to business as usual in no time. He will definitely NOT be thrown out of congress nor will he sit in prison.
What’s new another corrupt liberal politician, what will get away with it. He’s not gonna have to resign.
Who will it hurt more, this rosha oysvorf getting his slap on the wrist or the person giving the slap?
His campaign slogan was “corruption you can count on”
Your Sister,
Rubashkin was not “innocent”. He transgressed many halachot and many secular laws. Rangel’s offenses appear to be violations of House rules, not crimes. And in any case, a recent Supreme Court ruling makes it very difficult to prosecute corrupt politicians; Joe Bruno is likely to be freed soon because of this.
To: Charliehall
Firstly, Reb Shalom Mordechai was cleared of all immigration charges. Secondly all loan payments, including interest, were paid until such time as bankruptcy brought about due to the company being closed down on the false immigration charges made further payments impossible. No laws were broken with the exception that he may have indicated the company was worth more than it was. The purpose, however, of such statements, is to determine the size of the loan approval, and, as I said, he paid, and paid, and paid, until trumped up charges, brought by a corrupt judge prevented him from paying. So please let’s stop making him into a criminal the likes of . . . And, if I may add, if, as you say, it makes no difference if it was law or halachah, why aren’t House laws included?
Re #10 and #11 With regard to R’ Rubashkin, actually the immigration charges (the basis of the original raid which destroyed the business and led to the bank fraud issue) were dropped — after destroying his life they never even went to trial. He was acquitted of the charges relating to child labor. The only secular laws that he “transgressed” were related to the bank fraud (as explained above), and an archaic law that no one was ever prosecuted under before requiring agricultural products to be paid for immediately rather than be bought on credit. Not that any laws may be broken, but the context here does not seem accurately described when charliehall says “he transgressed many halachot and many secular laws.”
As far as Rangel’s crimes go, the unreported gifts and the use of official stationary and office staff to solicit donations to his private cause from businesses who had pending business with committees that he served on may just be “house rules”, but tax fraud is definitely a crime when ordinary citizens do it. Do you think you and I would be able to file corrections for 10 years of “forgetfulness”? Or maybe he just had the same trouble as Geithner, and couldn’t get his Turbo Tax to work properly. . .
Also, I’m not sure about it but I believe violating ethics rules when working in the government is considered criminal behavior, even though politicians are not tried for those crimes in the regular court system.