ethics
Charlie Rangel’s spectacular rise and fall
CNN – Congressman Charlie Rangel had a bad week. Calls for the veteran Harlem politician’s resignation are increasing after the House Ethics Committee’s announcement Thursday that he will be the subject of its first corruption trial in nearly a decade. The last time the committee took such a step, in 2002, it led to a [...]
House panel charges Rangel with ethics misdeeds
A House investigative committee on Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel with multiple ethics violations, dealing a serious blow to the former Ways and Means chairman and complicating Democrats’ election-year outlook. The panel did not immediately specify the charges against the Democrat, who has served in the House for some 40 years and is [...]
