Charlie Rangel Is An Amateur

Tax dodging.

Hiding income.

Ethics violations.

And the list goes on and on.

And Charlie may very well get away with a slap on the wrist.

What do I base that conclusion on?

Well, Charlie can’t hold a candle to Pennsylvania Congressman Paul Kanjorski.

In spite of the following story being all over the news, Kanjorski won re-election in 2008 and is running again in 2010.

If the voters wouldn’t hold accountable a man who funnels 10 million dollars to his own family, what the hell makes you think the House Ethics Committee is going to do anything to Charlie?

Read it for yourself:

TidbitsThursday, June 21, 2007 By: Leslie K. PaigeWastewatcher, June 2007
Congressman Kanjorski (D-Pa.) joins a mushrooming list of members of Congress whose earmarking habits are getting a lot of media attention.

Over an eight-year period, Rep. Kanjorski steered $10 million in earmarked federal funding (from the Energy and Defense Departments, as well as the Economic Development Administration) to Cornerstone Technologies, LLC, which employed his four nephews and his daughter as either owners or board members.

The ostensible purpose of the grants was to do research on using high-pressure jets of water to pulverize anthracite into microscopic particles for subsequent use in vehicle parts.

Cornerstone has now declared bankruptcy, but while contracts were flowing, the company was paying hefty salaries to at least two of Kanjorski’s nephews.

Not only was Cornerstone funded with federal contracts, one of its affiliates, Pennsylvania Micronics, run by other Kanjorski relatives, also benefited from subcontracts.

A former head of Penn State’s Energy Institute is quoted in a June 3, 2007 Scranton Times-Tribune as saying “It was like the Three Stooges meet anthracite.”