{"id":1247,"date":"2009-10-08T12:51:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2009-10-08T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:51:19","slug":"the_culture_of_corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"The Culture Of Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/national\/it_looking_impossible_to_clean_this_GIFJ76rnhmftYZEcJlcpeM\">New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article about the investigation into the financial activities of Representative Charlie Rangel.&nbsp; Mr. Rangel has been charged with failing to report income, failing to pay income taxes on some income, and lying on his Congressional disclosure forms.&nbsp; The charges involve rent-controlled apartments, car storage, and other items which do call into question the man&#8217;s moral compass.&nbsp; He is the head of the committee that writes and oversees tax codes (which evidently he does not fully understand).<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;In a convoluted parliamentary charade, Democrats voted in nearly lockstep to thwart a resolution to remove Rangel from the powerful chairmanship of the House <\/em><a class=\"topiclink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/t\/Ways_and_Means_Committee\"><em>Ways and Means Committee<\/em><\/a><em>, where he sits as the nation&#8217;s top tax-writer &#8212; at least until his numerous ethical and legal woes have been resolved.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nancy Pelosi had promised that the investigation of Charlie Rangel would be completed by now, but somehow that has not been accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Post&nbsp;posted an article about the investigation into the financial activities of Representative Charlie Rangel.&nbsp; Mr. Rangel has been charged with failing to report income, failing to pay income taxes on some income, and lying on his Congressional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}