EDITORIAL: Rangel as Ways and Means Committee Chair Had $4 Million Unreported Income

WHO: New York City Congressman Charles Rangel

WHAT: Newly amended financial disclosure records by Rep. Charles Rangel reveal that the powerful Harlem Democrat failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income — including up to $1 million for a 2004 building sale — on forms filed between 2002 and 2006. He also failed to reveal a staggering $3 million in business transactions during the same period.

Read more: (Editorial, “Daily Outrage: Ways and Means Committee Chair had $4 Million Unreported Income,” The San Francisco Examiner, 8/28/09)