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This bit of news just makes me LOL

- November 14, 2010 - TheKytiKat

Violating ethics charges to pay the lawyers you hired to defend you from ethics violation charges. Now that’s actually kind of funny.

Charlie Rangel apparently used $393,000 of PAC money to pay his legal-defense team. This is against house rules.

via Democrook Charlie Rangel Raided PAC’s For $393,000 | The Gateway Pundit.

This legal team is the one hired to defend him on Ethics charges.

An eight-member ethics subcommittee of four Democrats and four Republicans will convene at 9 a.m. [Nov. 15, 2010] to hear the 13 charges.

They include failure to disclose and pay taxes on his vacation home in the Dominican Republic; his use of a rent-regulated Harlem apartment as a campaign office; and using congressional stationery to raise money for the Rangel Center at City College.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rangel_raided_pacs_for_ZlQ9s68r9cadmFBXvTeq1K#ixzz15Ixr6K1T

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