Here he is enjoying a moment on the beach. the congressman failing to disclose rental income on this villa as required by congress. he filed amendments only after the ethics committee began investigating him. now the congressman has blamed sloppy bookkeeping and that may be but it may also be an excuse. remember, this was the guy writing tax law and he can t seem to keep his records straight, the kind everybody has to, whether we re in congress or not. joining me now, joe johns and melanie sloan, currently executive director for citizens of responsibility and ethics in washington. next year she ll go into private practice with lanny davis. melanie, is congressman rangel corrupt? he says it s not corruption because he wasn t personally benefiting financially but is there an argument to be made? i think there is. i think if you ask most americans, they d think that if you re getting a bunch of apartment that s other people couldn t have access to, that if you re trading on your influen
Remember, this was the guy writing tax law and he can t seem to keep his records straight, the kind everybody has to, whether we re in congress or not. joining me now, joe johns and melanie sloan, currently executive director for citizens of responsibility and ethics in washington. next year she ll go into private practice with lanny davis. melanie, is congressman rangel corrupt? he says it s not corruption because he wasn t personally benefiting financially but is there an argument to be made? i think there is. i think if you ask most americans, they d think that if you re getting a bunch of apartment that s other people couldn t have access to, that if you re trading on your influence in congress in order to raise money for basically a big monument to me, people would have problems with those kind of things, as well as a tax violations, for example, failing to disclose income, those are things that directly benefited mr. rangel. you were at the house today, what was his mood like
Donate money to something. in one case according to the new york times, mr. rangel s committee helped preserve a tax loophole for an oil drilling company that pledged money. even if it wasn t money he himself was after, you can make a case it was influence and he was also censured for accepting several rent stabilized apartments at prices far below market value, apartments designed for residential not office use. mr. rangel denies any wrong doing. those apartments are meant for people with low incomes. if rangel was using those apartments and got them because of who he is, then actually deserving people were not able to use them. then there s the dominican republic. here he is enjoying a moment on the beach. the congressman failing to disclose rental income on this villa as required by congress. he filed amendments only after the ethics committee began investigating him. now the congressman has blamed sloppy bookkeeping and that may be but it may also be an excuse. remember, this was
Several rent stabilized apartments at prices far below market value, apartments designed for residential not office use. mr. rangel denies any wrong doing. those apartments are meant for people with low incomes. if rangel was using those apartments and got them because of who he is, then actually deserving people were not able to use them. then there s the dominican republic. here he is enjoying a moment on the beach. the congressman failing to disclose rental income on this villa as required by congress. he filed amendments only after the ethics committee began investigating him. now the congressman has blamed sloppy bookkeeping and that may be but it may also be an excuse. remember, this was the guy writing tax law and he can t seem to keep his records straight, the kind everybody has to, whether we re in congress or not. joining me now, joe johns and melanie sloan, currently executive director for citizens of responsibility and ethics in washington. next year she ll go into private
New york times, mr. rangel s committee helped preserve a tax loophole for an oil drilling company that pledged money. even if it wasn t money he himself was after, you can make a case it was influence and he was also censured for accepting several rent stabilized apartments at prices far below market value, apartments designed for residential not office use. mr. rangel denies any wrong doing. let s remember, rent stabilized apartments are meant for people with low incomes. if rangel was using those apartments and got them because of who he is, then actually deserving people were not able to use them. then there s the dominican republic. here he is enjoying a moment on the beach. the congressman failing to disclose rental income on this villa as required by congress. he filed amendments only after the ethics committee began investigating him. now the congressman has blamed sloppy bookkeeping and that may be but it may also be an excuse. remember, this was the guy writing tax law and he