Rangel Center’s Opening Delayed

Amid an intensified ethics investigation of Representative Charles B. Rangel, an opening reception for a school named in his honor has been postponed.

The decision to delay the reception for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York was made ”by mutual agreement between the congressman’s office and the college,” said Mary Lou Edmondson, the college’s vice president of communications, in an interview Friday.

The reception, scheduled for Tuesday evening, would have come a week after a House ethics committee voted to examine the congressman’s role in preserving a tax loophole for an oil drilling company whose chief executive pledged $1 million to the Rangel Center project.

Read more: (“Opening Delayed for Rangel Center,” The New York Times, 12/13/08)