Pelosi’s in a Rangled Web

Under fire for dragging her feet on the probe of embattled Rep. Charles Rangel, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday an investigation of the Harlem Democrat will be finished by Jan. 3.

“In September I called on the House Ethics Committee to look into issues raised by news reports on Chairman Rangel,” Pelosi said in a statement. “I have been assured the report will be completed by the end of this session of Congress.”

Republican critics and watchdog groups have been attacking Pelosi and the Ethics Committee for a lack of action in the Rangel case. Meanwhile, a watchdog group filed a new ethics complaint against Rangel, calling for congressional investigators to broaden their ongoing probe.

Read more: (Daphne Retter, “Pelosi’s in a Rangled Web,” New York Post, 11/27/08)