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 influence in congress in order to raise money for basically a big monument to me, people would have problems with those kind of
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