Rangel could face more charges

[FBaggins]

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) might not be out of the woods yet.

The House voted last Thursday to censure the former Ways and Means Committee chairman for violating 11 House ethics rules. Next, he may be facing an investigation at the hands of the Federal Election Commission.

The FEC is investigating a complaint that Rangel misused his political action committee to fund his legal defense over House ethics rules, the New York Post reported Sunday.

Filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, the complaint charges that Rangel used nearly $400,000 raised by his National Leadership PAC to pay his legal bills. Rangel told the House Ethics Committee last month that he could no longer afford counsel in the panel’s proceedings after spending more than $2 million on legal fees.

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[ladjf]

1. My God! With all of the criminal politicians in Washington that need

prosecuting, why are they continuing to blast Rangel?

[FBaggins]

2. You're not *really* saying "leave the poor guy alone" are you?

The correct respose is to "blast" the other crooked politicians as well. Not give this one a pass.

[ladjf]

3. No, I'm not saying the Rangel should be "given a free pass".

I am saying that cardinal criminals in Washington, who have lied to take us to war to kill and be killed, who have promoted the looting of the treasury, and have have callously taken money from the sick and poor to give it to the rich should not be allowed to get of "scott free" while petty unlawful acts such as those done by Rangel get prosecuted to the limit of the law.

By the way, what else to you think should be done to Rangel, a jail sentence? He has already been totally disgraced as a politician.