his raising money for a public policy center at the city college of new york, called the rangel center after him. specifically it says that he solicited donations from companies that were doing business with his committee, the ways and means committee, the tax-writing committee, and it details that he had personal meetings and some really particularly interesting specifics here. it said that he met with one person who ended up donating $500,000 and whose company donated $500,000 to the rangel center and then a few months later this same company was talking with his committee, pushing for a special tax loophole. also, rangel himself, personally met with a lobbyist for aig, and the objective of the meeting, according to a memo prepared by the city college of new york, was to get $10 million for the rangel center, and the it said that specifically rangel asked aig at least twice what was necessary to get this done. also another issue, that he used
123 v 13 violation of house rules. i want the latest from our congressional correspondent brianna keilar who is following the development. what happened today? well, this is a public airing of the violations he is facing, but more importantly, suzanne is this, this is released today and it is about more than 40 pages. it is a statement of alleged violation, and this is really the source of charlie rangel s woes, because it details exactly what the ethics committee says it found to be alleged violations. the big problems for him have to do with how he raised money for the city college of new york. specifically for a public policy center that they are building that is named after him, and it is called the rangel center, and some of the significant ethics issues are that he solicited doemations from companies doing business with his committee. he had personal meetings and i want to give you coupe of examples, because they stand out. he met with the ceo of a company
million-dollar contribution to the rangel center attached to city college and some questions about his financial disclosure forms and taxes and four rent controlled amounts in harlem. ethics committee has to come back on all of those things. we are seeing the beginning for charlie rangel. shannon: he has successfully deflected a numbers of accusations and charges up to this point. what is it that finally led from democratic leadership that it s time. midterm elections being a few months off is really. the democrats came in on the message of a culture of corruption, they were going to clean up washington. it s not a very good message for them to have charlie rangel s picture splashed across every headline with corruption allegations. members were starlighting to feel worried whether there was going to resonate with voters in the midterm. we know voters care very much about ethics. they cared about it in 2006 and brought bats drats to power. in fact, the republicans, that s why they
it s how do we know whether it s business as usual, but i think to some extent. they all do something like this. the john murtha case, for instance, and the ear marks and just being above it all. but i think to kim s point, look, the ethics committee this week put up on its website the document of its lawyers, list of charges. right. there is not enough time on our program to read through. it is endless. and anyone thinks this is just small change should go through. there s hundreds of things in there. it s off the charts. this is exactly what people are upset about. the failure to put things on a disclosure report. the failure to report taxes for the income, soliciting donations for the rangel center from people who have to do business before his committee. that s right, i think one of the things that is extraordinary here, kim, just how the degree to which this is extraordinary coming from the ethics committee, given rangel s stature in the congress and how beloved charlie rang