Black Plague
07-12-2008, 05:14 AM
http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/?p=193
It's good to be the king, or a powerful congressman. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel (D-New York) has been living high off the hog, the New York Times reports. While ordinary New Yorkers struggle with sky-high rents, the archliberal Democratic lawmaker, the scourge of landlords, has not one, not two, not three, but FOUR rent-controlled apartments in New York City.
And apparently his behavior is illegal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyregion/11rangel.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp
Mr. Rangel, the powerful Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, uses his fourth apartment, six floors below, as a campaign office, despite state and city regulations that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used as a primary residence.
Last year, government watchdog groups criticized Mr. Rangel for pushing through a $1.9 million earmark to build the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York, which is to include an office for Mr. Rangel and a presidential-style library for his official papers. The congressman and the college said that by lending his name to the project, he had helped the college raise millions from private donors.
It's good to be the king, or a powerful congressman. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel (D-New York) has been living high off the hog, the New York Times reports. While ordinary New Yorkers struggle with sky-high rents, the archliberal Democratic lawmaker, the scourge of landlords, has not one, not two, not three, but FOUR rent-controlled apartments in New York City.
And apparently his behavior is illegal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyregion/11rangel.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp
Mr. Rangel, the powerful Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, uses his fourth apartment, six floors below, as a campaign office, despite state and city regulations that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used as a primary residence.
Last year, government watchdog groups criticized Mr. Rangel for pushing through a $1.9 million earmark to build the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York, which is to include an office for Mr. Rangel and a presidential-style library for his official papers. The congressman and the college said that by lending his name to the project, he had helped the college raise millions from private donors.