Charles B. Rangel guilty of 11 counts of ethical violations

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The committee’s verdict is the culmination of a two-year investigation that began after new reports about Mr. Rangel accepting four rent-stabilized apartments at prices thousands of dollars per month below market value.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/nyregion/17rangel.html

The House of Representative Ethics Committee -- five Democrats and five Republicans -- will now consider punishment, which ethics experts predict will likely be censure or reprimand by the full House, possibly later this week.

With the panel's chief counsel finding "no evidence of corruption" and attributing Rangel's misdeeds largely to being "sloppy in his personal finances," it is not expected to recommend he be expelled from Congress.

Rangel resigned in March as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee after being admonished for corporate-sponsored trips in violation of House gift rules.

Charles Rangel convicted of ethics violations | Reuters

"The Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical congress in history." - Nancy Pelosi (Nov 7, 2006)

Man, what utter, utter failure! It has been the complete opposite!