EDITORIAL: Rangel’s Ways and Means

Say it ain’t tow, Charlie!

Ah, but it was.

They put the hook to Rep. Charles Rangel’s ’72 Mercedes Benz yesterday, hours after The Post reported that the vehicle had been illegally parked in a House garage – covered with a tarp, sans plates and a current registration sticker – for years.

The arrangement apparently allowed Rangel to avoid thousands of dollars in car-storage fees – a sweet deal if you can get it.

And Rangel, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, had no trouble getting it. It’s good to be the kingpin.

Read more: (Editorial, “Charlie’s Ways and Means,” New York Post, 9/19/08)