Charles B Rangel

Congressman Charles B Rangel failed to report over $75,000 of rental income from a villa he owned in the Dominican Republic.

Congressman Charles B Rangel is Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee... which writes the Federal tax code.

He claims he did not realise he had to declare the money as income, whilst his lawyer comments that "it would be inaccurate to infer that the congressman was trying to conceal a highly lucrative investment"

Surely the fact that it was "highly lucrative" was the very reason he tried to conceal the income?

Rangel refuses to resign his position - even as hugely embarrassing as his actions are to the Democratic Party ahead of the November elections. His statement of "I really don't believe that making mistakes means you have to give up your career", merely underlines his shit-gripping indifference to, and ignorance of, the very tax payers he is supposed to be representing.