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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (33337)8/10/2010 11:24:13 PM
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Brand new ethics complaint filed against Rangel

By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
08/10/10 4:25 PM EDT

The National Legal and Policy Center has filed an all new ethics charge against Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. It seems that Rangel may have used political influence to funnel millions in tax dollars to a questionable charity:

<<< The complaint focuses on Rep. Rangel’s efforts to direct millions of dollars in taxpayers’ money to a politically well-connected but financially unstable nonprofit Alianza Dominicana in New York City. Rangel’s relationship with the controversial group was the subject of a front page story in the Sunday August 8, 2010 New York Post. The Post story detailed how Rangel used his position of influence with the New York Empowerment Zone to direct millions in taxpayer assistance in the form of loan guarantees, a loan and a grant to the group for the purchase of a $19 million new building in Manhattan. At the same time, Alianza Dominicana had failed to pay its state and federal taxes and had run up huge debts with its landlord and other creditors. The group had even stiffed its own employees on hundreds of thousands of dollars in payroll. >>>

You can read the full 10 page complaint here. National Legal and Policy Center is responsible for filing the ethics complaint charging that Rangel was taking trips to the Caribbean, paid for by interests with business before the House Ways and Means committee when Rangel was the chairman of that committee. That complaint led to a formal admonishment by the House ethics committee.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com
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