{"id":6349,"date":"2010-07-31T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2010-07-31T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:51:42","slug":"charlie-rangel-wants-company-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6349\/charlie-rangel-wants-company-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Rangel Wants Company in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though it\u2019s undeniably true, it isn\u2019t customary for a member of Congress on trial for ethics violations defends his actions by saying everyone else did it too.<\/p>\n<p>So hats off for former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY).\u00a0 In authorizing his attorneys to file a 32-page rebuttal to ethics charges that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/30\/AR2010073006295.html?hpid=topnews \" target=\"_blank\">names members of both parties who\u2019ve escaped prosecution for doing similar activities<\/a>, Rangel is explicitly inviting prosecutors to consider going after other members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>But before they do that, one of the members Rangel didn\u2019t name is facing her own ethics trial.\u00a0 Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) is vowing to fight charges that she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-waters-20100731,0,6472045.story \" target=\"_blank\">improperly steered $12 million worth of financial bailout money<\/a> to a bank where her husband was a board member.<\/p>\n<p>Even if convicted, Waters probably won\u2019t face a prison term like Rangel.\u00a0 However, if Rangel continues to name names, he may get company in prison.\u00a0 I wonder if they\u2019ll let him name his wing after himself\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it\u2019s undeniably true, it isn\u2019t customary for a member of Congress on trial for ethics violations defends his actions by saying everyone else did it too. So hats off for former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY).\u00a0 In authorizing his attorneys to file a 32-page rebuttal to ethics charges that names [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[260,351,949,1635],"class_list":["post-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-charlie-rangel","tag-corruption","tag-ethics","tag-maxine-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}