Rangel is Robin Hood in Reverse

For those who have studied most closely the decades of Charlie Rangel’s financial tangles and fiscal subterfuge, one doggedly puzzling question overshadows all the rest.

How does Rangel have so much money and where did it come from?

This is a man who draws a salary from the government of about $175,000 a year.

It’s a comfortable salary, but it certainly isn’t going to make anybody this rich — especially someone living in one of the world’s most expensive cities.

Rangel did not inherit a fortune and did not marry one. And nor had he built some huge fortune before he first won election to Congress in 1970.

Read more: (Charles Hurt, “Rangel is Robin Hood in Reverse,” New York Post, 10/04/09)