Charlie Rangel, Democratic congressman from New York and chairman of the House Ways and Means committee. This man truly is the cliche corrupt and pathetic politician of the common man's nightmares. The man doesn't know how to file his own taxes, and yet he is worthy of writing tax laws? Just check out his Wikipedia page for a slew of scandals and tasteless comments. If the media was doing its job this would be common knowledge.
From the New York Post:
Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income — including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale — on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records.
The documents also show the embattled chairman of the Ways and Means Committee — who is being probed by the House Ethics Committee — failed to reveal a staggering $3 million in various business transactions over the same period.
This week, Rangel filed drastically revised financial-disclosure forms reflecting new, higher amounts of outside income and numerous additional business deals that had not been reported when the reports were originally filed.
In 2004, for instance, Rangel reported earning between $4,000 and $10,000 in outside earnings on top of his $158,100 congressional salary.
But the amended filings show that after the sale of a property on West 132nd Street, his outside income that year was somewhere between $118,000 and $1.04 million.
h/t I Hate the Media
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