You cannot make this stuff up. Oh, you can try, but you cannot make it up.
The New York Post reported:
Congressman Charles Rangel, whose ethics trial starts tomorrow, appears to have improperly used political-action committee money to pay for his defense.
Rangel tapped his National Leadership PAC for $293,000 to pay his main legal-defense team this year. He took another $100,000 from the PAC in 2009 to pay lawyer Lanny Davis.
Two legal experts told The Post such spending is against House rules.
“It’s a breach of congressional ethics,” one campaign-finance lawyer said.
Washington, DC, political lawyer Cleta Mitchell said there is “no authority for a member to use leadership PAC funds as a slush fund to pay for personal or official expenses.”Leadership PACs are typically used by politicians to donate money to other candidates.
But Rangel seems to have run afoul of House ethics rules. Lawmakers are generally allowed to use campaign cash to pay their lawyers, but this is limited to money in their personal campaign committee and they must ask permission first, the campaign-finance lawyer said.
Far be it from us to rush to judgment in this case, but there’s one piece of evidence screaming that Rangel is guilty:
His attorney is Lanny Davis.
Of course, the trial circus will be held during the lame duck session of Congress while Democrats still hold the majority. You don’t think that will influence the vote, do you?
Nahhhhhh.
Source: New York Post
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Budget deficit, Jobs, the poor, Health Care, War, Peace, China, Over Population?...Or persecute the Hell out of Old Man Rangel on world wide news for days on end? Where do we start?
He's a congressman! There's no way our great leaders of America could be corrupt! How dare they!
guilty on 11 counts. of course, his punishment will be a vacation to vegas on the tax-payers' dime.
this guy needs to be expelled-and now, but it will never happen. the contempt he has for we "unwashed" is so angering I could punch someone....where is a libtard when I need him?
But if you notice this, or point it out, YOU are a racist!
LOL.
the point is: the elite in power do not submit to law - bet you nothing is really done to him like would be done to us law abiding type if we made even an honest mistake.
corrupt is and will do so
If I had the opportunity.....I would punch Lanny Davis in the nose.
and they are talking about telling him he was a bad boy. where the hell is the DoJ? Why is there not a grand jury convened? What am I missing?
Attorney General Holder is black. Congressman Rangel is black.
What part of black don't you understand?
No... you got that twisted... If Rangel happened to be conservative democrat (who goes agains the democrat status quo) regardless of the color of his skin Holder would not help him. This is all about protecting their ideological and political own. If Rangel was white and still the same way, Holder would not move a finger against him. If Rangel (white or black) was a Republican Holder would probably be first in line to nail the man to a cross.