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people making over a million dollars. that could be one of the pieces of compromise from the president. let s talk about when the lame duck session gets started. charlie rangel s hearing on whether or not he violated 13 different standards of congressional conduct. he goes on trial and because he already hired his lawyer, mr. rangel who was an attorney once upon a time hasn t practiced for decades. he s going to defend himself. let s take a look at some of the violations, solicitation he violated, the code of ethics for government service, the house gift rule, post service laws and franking, free stance, the house office building commissions regulations and purpose law and the member congressional hand. look at all that stuff. you wish they would say it in plain english. i guess it had to do with the rent he was paying and the taxes that he allegedly didn t pay but there s a whole slew of 13 allegations there. interesting to me they haven t had one of these kind of public
the caribbean trips. and also remind us of what charlie rangel has done to square his handling of the rental property income not reported on parcels there in the dominican republic because that s low-hanging fruit that everybody can understand. reporter: yeah. this is there s really a list, tony, so let s talk about what he s been formally admonished by the house ethics committee for first. on friday, the house ethics committee said that he broke the house gift rule because of trips that he took to the caribbean, to antiqua in 2007 and to st. maarten in 2008 for a business conference. well, as it turns out, that was a trip that was sponsored in trip by a corporation. now, there were other members of congress who went on this trip who were not admonished. rangel was admonished because documents showed that two of his staffers, including his then chief of staff, were aware that this was sponsored by corporations. so even though the committee said they couldn t prove rangel
slap that he got? the ethics committee says rangel broke the house gift rule. he accepted trips to the caribbean for an annual business conference. he want to antigua in 2007, and the trips were paid for in part by corporate sponsors. under house rules, members are not allowed to do that. so the commit decree says he must repay the costs of the trips. evening though rangel told the committee he wasn t aware the corporate sponsors were in play, they re holding him responsible, because some of his staff members were aware. they re holding him response for those staff members, basically submitting false information when they wanted approve for the trips. this was just one of the issues? yes, considering he s the head of the house tax committee is one where he failed to pay taxes for a rental property for
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