Rangel’s Ethics Inquiry May Put Pelosi in a Bind

Speaker Nancy Pelosi took stewardship of the House two years ago with a pledge to “drain the swamp” and clean up ethical abuses in Congress.

Now an investigation of one of her party’s best-known members is putting her in an uncomfortable spot.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York is the subject of an investigation by a House ethics panel over his ownership of several rent-controlled apartments in New York, his failure to pay taxes on an offshore rental property, and his use of office letterhead to solicit donations for a public-policy school that would bear his name.

Read more: (James Oliphant, “Rep. Charles Rangel’s Ethics Inquiry May Put Pelosi in a Bind,” Los Angeles Times, 12/08/08)