Rangel

A House panel on Thursday accused New York Rep. Charles B. Rangel of 13 ethics violations, placing his storied 40-year political career in jeopardy and guaranteeing Democrats an election-year headache. The allegations were unveiled in a meeting that set the stage for a rare, full-blown trial that could take place as soon as September. Rangel, a Democrat from Harlem, did not attend the meeting and has maintained he will be exonerated. Until the moment House Ethics Committee members met Thursday afternoon, talk filtered through congressional corridors that Rangel's attorneys had struck an agreement to avoid the hearing.

Dr. Leo Rangell, a leading psychoanalyst who argued forcefully that theoretical fads and factions threatened to erode consumer confidence in the field founded by Sigmund Freud more than 100 years ago, died Saturday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He was 97. The cause was complications from surgery, said his daughter Judith Alley. A clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA and UC San Francisco, Rangell wrote more than 450 published papers as well as several books, including "The Mind of Watergate" (1980)

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, whose 40 years in the House have come under a cloud because of an ethics scandal, announced Tuesday he has established a new defense fund to help pay off past legal expenses and to deal with pending and new complaints. Rangel (D-N.Y.) was censured by the House earlier this month for financial and fundraising misconduct and had to stand on the chamber’s floor to listen to Speaker Nancy Pelosi read the censure resolution, which passed 333-79. The new fund, called the Charles B. Rangel Legal Expense Trust, was approved by the House ethics committee, Rangel announced in a prepared statement.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, whose 40 years in the House have come under a cloud because of an ethics scandal, announced Tuesday he has established a new defense fund to help pay off past legal expenses and to deal with pending and new complaints. Rangel (D-N.Y.) was censured by the House earlier this month for financial and fundraising misconduct and had to stand on the chamber’s floor to listen to Speaker Nancy Pelosi read the censure resolution, which passed 333-79. The new fund, called the Charles B. Rangel Legal Expense Trust, was approved by the House ethics committee, Rangel announced in a prepared statement.

The House rejected a Republican-led bid to force Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) to give up his chairmanship of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee while the ethics committee reviews his financial and tax records. The proposal failed, 226-176. Issues include Rangel's failure to report $75,000 in rental income and his use of a rent-controlled apartment as a campaign office. Rangel, 78, denies intentional wrongdoing.

Democratic Rep. Charles B. Rangel, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee who has been dogged by ethics questions, temporarily stepped down from the powerful post Wednesday, shaking up the panel at a crucial time for his party. Rep. Pete Stark (D-Fremont), one of the most liberal and outspoken members of the House, is expected to take over the influential committee, which writes tax legislation and has sweeping power over any measure that affects revenue. The ascension of Stark, a congressman since the Nixon presidency and dean of the California congressional delegation, "should energize the committee," said Rick Weissenstein, a healthcare analyst with Washington Research Group, a policy and market research firm.

WASHINGTON ? A congressional panel has found New York Rep. Charles Rangel guilty of 11 violations of House ethics rules and now will consider sanctions of the Democrat that could range from formal reprimand to expulsion from Congress. Rangel had been charged with 13 rules violations, including failing to declare rental income from a Dominican villa, improper solicitation of donations on congressional letterhead and misuse of a rent-controlled apartment as a campaign office. Two of the violations were combined.

Democratic Rep. Charles B. Rangel, once among the most powerful members of Congress, will face a hearing on charges of violating House ethics rules after a panel of his peers formally accused him of wrongdoing Thursday. For two years, House ethics investigators pored over records of the New York congressman's travel and record-keeping in response to complaints about corporate-paid trips, the use of several rent-stabilized apartments and other allegations. Rangel, 80, could face reprimand, censure or expulsion if the House Ethics Committee determines he violated rules.

A congressional panel Tuesday found Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York guilty of violating 11 House ethics rules, but the Harlem Democrat is likely to escape the most serious punishment for his actions ? expulsion from the House. Instead, it's expected that the once-powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee will be reprimanded or censured by his colleagues for ethics transgressions that include his failure to declare rental income from a Dominican villa, improper solicitation of donations on congressional letterhead and misuse of a rent-controlled apartment as a campaign office.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel's Democratic colleagues blocked a move to strip him of his committee chairmanship amid numerous allegations that he violated congressional ethics rules. A Republican-sponsored resolution said that Rangel (D-N.Y.) was unfit to lead the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax laws, while he is under investigation by the ethics committee. But Democrats prevented debate on the resolution and, on a 246-153 vote, instead sent it to the ethics committee. Six Republicans voted with the Democrats, while two members of Rangel's party sided with the Republicans.

Be more like Pete Wilson Re "State budget reality check," Column, Dec. 2 George Skelton blames California's economic crisis on a "devastating recession, ? the way Prop. 13 was implemented" under then-Gov. Jerry Brown and the "fiscal irresponsibility" of Gov. Gray Davis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature. I couldn't help but notice that Davis' immediate predecessor, Gov. Pete Wilson, doesn't appear on Skelton's list. Maybe that's because ? despite the recession of the early 1990s, Proposition 13 and the profligacy of our Legislature ?

After high political drama and an emotional debate, the House of Representatives censured Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Thursday for ethical misconduct, meting out its first such punishment in nearly 30 years. As the often raucous body came to a standstill, the 80-year-old former chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee stood in the well of the chamber, hands clasped in front of him, while Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- San Francisco) somberly read the censure resolution: "Resolved, that Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York be censured; the representative will present himself in the well of the House for the pronouncement of censure ?

The bipartisan House Ethics Committee recommended Thursday that embattled New York Democrat Charles B. Rangel be censured by the full House of Representatives for ethics violations, the stiffest penalty a member can face short of expulsion. The House will probably take up the matter after Thanksgiving. Rangel would be the first congressman censured in almost 30 years. The Harlem representative had sought a lighter sanction. Before the vote, he asked the committee for leniency, pointing to his 40 years of service on Capitol Hill and saying "there was not even the suggestion of corruption" in the allegations against him. Unlike the defiant posture Rangel assumed this week, the 80-year-old former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee seemed resigned, even dispirited.

A congressional panel Tuesday found Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York guilty of violating 11 House ethics rules, but the Harlem Democrat is likely to escape the most serious punishment for his actions ? expulsion from the House. Instead, it's expected that the once-powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee will be reprimanded or censured by his colleagues for ethics transgressions that include his failure to declare rental income from a Dominican villa, improper solicitation of donations on congressional letterhead and misuse of a rent-controlled apartment as a campaign office.

WASHINGTON ? A congressional panel has found New York Rep. Charles Rangel guilty of 11 violations of House ethics rules and now will consider sanctions of the Democrat that could range from formal reprimand to expulsion from Congress. Rangel had been charged with 13 rules violations, including failing to declare rental income from a Dominican villa, improper solicitation of donations on congressional letterhead and misuse of a rent-controlled apartment as a campaign office. Two of the violations were combined.

A House panel hearing ethics violation charges against New York Rep. Charles B. Rangel decided Monday to accept the prosecutor's evidence as uncontested after the Harlem Democrat walked out of the proceedings. Rangel's decision not to participate ? after arguing that it was unfair for him to face the charges without legal representation ? short-circuited what was expected to be a weeklong proceeding involving a dozen witnesses. Instead, after briefly considering and then rejecting a motion to delay, the eight-member panel of the House Ethics Committee decided to forgo witnesses and hear only the presentation of Blake Chisam, chief counsel for the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

The chairman and ranking Republican member of the House narcotics committee criticized Education Secretary William J. Bennett today for not emphasizing the drug abuse issue in his proposal for a model high school curriculum. Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), the chairman, said in a statement that Bennett "buried the drug issue, which students themselves say is the biggest problem facing young people today."

Your editorial, "Free Speech That's Costing Congress a Lot" (May 14), indicates that your hypocrisy is apparently unlimited. The pattern is clear. No statement by any Democratic member of Congress, no matter how vile, intemperate or unfounded, deserves even mild scolding by The Times. When Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) compared the Speaker to "a Hitler," The Times was silent. When Rangel said that conservatives who wanted to cut spending were equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan, you said nothing.

A Downey man accused of operating a Ponzi scheme that targeted Spanish speakers has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office said Monday. Juan Rangel, 46, agreed Friday to plead guilty to charges of mail fraud and money laundering. Federal prosecutors said they would ask a judge to sentence Rangel to 15 years in federal prison. Rangel used advertisements in Spanish-language media to recruit investors to his Commerce company, Financial Plus Investments.