WASHINGTON - A special ethics panel has found Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, guilty on at least 11 of 13 ethics charges, congressional sources said Tuesday.
A special eight-member adjudicatory panel of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct reached its decision after deliberating for roughly six hours following Monday’s public ethics trial.
Rangel, 80, walked out of the trial complaining that he had not been given enough time to find an attorney to represent him.
The full 10-member ethics committee must now weigh in on the decision and can recommend sanctions.
Rangel has been dogged for months by a number of issues, including his failure to report on federal tax returns rental income earned on a villa in the Dominican Republic and whether he received below-market rental rates on four apartments in New York City.
