Rangel Hires Help for Tax Problems

Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel yesterday announced he had made good on a promise to hire experts to comb through two decades of tax returns to see how much he failed to pay Uncle Sam.

The powerful Harlem Democrat said he had hired the accounting firm of Watkins, Meegan, Drury and Co. to investigate his financial records and report its findings to the House ethics panel probing him.

Rangel “is providing all information needed by the committee to reach its conclusions, and looks forward to a rapid resolution of this matter,” he said in a press release.

Read more: (Daphne Retter, “Rangel Hires Help for Tax Problems,” New York Post, 11/14/08)