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Anonymous ID: 1ec468 Sept. 3, 2018, 7:38 p.m. No.2867322   🗄️.is đź”—kun

"you've been a bad boy" and Nancy Pelosi:

 

"Defiant Charlie Rangel censured"

 

Poor Charlie. After “suffering” through a 2 year “investigation” by the oxymoronically-named House Ethics Committee, he was found guilty on 11 of 13 charges ranging from tax evasion to failure to disclose financial assets on House disclosure reports. After a 333-79 vote for censure, outgoing speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly read through the “you’ve been a bad boy, Charlie” censure resolution. While most inside-the-beltway denizens seem to think this was devastating for poor Charlie, the rest of us know that this amounted to nothing more than a wrist slap (story here from ABC News).

 

Veteran Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., today became the first U.S. House member in 27 years to be censured after a long trial that resulted in him being convicted on 11 counts of ethics violations.

 

The censure, the highest punishment short of expulsion, is reserved for serious offenses and requires the member in question to stand before his or her colleagues while a censure resolution is read.

 

An amendment reducing the punishment to reprimand prior to the final vote failed overwhelmingly. After the wrist slapping a defiant Rangel “apologized,” then proceeded to claim that he wasn’t corrupt and that the whole process was unfair and “very political.”

 

https://imamook.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/defiant-charlie-rangel-censured-bfd/