Rangel Stalls on Vow to Hire Tax-Fix Expert

Rep. Charles Rangel has not hired the forensic accountant he said he needed in order to provide answers regarding his messy tax records, The Post has learned.

Meanwhile, the Harlem Democrat has paid more than $120,000 in campaign money to a law firm to represent him in the scandal.

Rangel, the powerful chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, paid $121,436 in fees to the Chicago office of Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe on Oct. 1. The payment came from his campaign fund, Rangel for Congress.

Read more: (Isabel Vincent, “Rangel Stalls on Vow to Hire Tax-Fix Expert,” New York Post, 11/02/08)