From the “You Can’t Even Make This Up” department: Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) — the most corrupt man in all of Congress — may face additional ethics charges for improperly using PAC funds to defend himself from…you guessed it, ethics charges…
(NY Post)- The Federal Election Commission is investigating a complaint that Rep. Charles Rangel improperly used his National Leadership PAC to fund his legal defense on ethics charges for which he was censured Thursday, The Post has learned.
The FEC is acting on a complaint by the National Legal and Policy Center filed after The Post reported last month that Rangel paid nearly $400,000 from his PAC.
Lawmakers are only allowed to use money in their individual campaign funds for legal fees, or they can set up legal defense funds for such costs.
Rangel appeared before the House Ethics Committee last month saying he could no longer afford legal counsel after already burning through $2 million.
The center expects to file a second complaint this week contending that Rangel’s PAC money included at least $195,000 in donations from lobbyists with business before the House Ways & Means Committee, of which he is a member.
I guess another standing ovation from his fellow corrupticrats in Congress is in the works for this despicable old man.
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