Rangel Investigation May Widen

Sources say that the Ethics Committee, which has been hampered by staffing issues over the past year, may vote to widen the Rangel probe even further to include an investigation into Rangel’s former childhood home — the now dilapidated row house in Harlem.

Among the issues that have recently surfaced about the brick building are Rangel’s failure to disclose any rental income for eight years, between 1993 and 2000 — a period during which The Post found tenants were living there.

In 2004, Rangel sold the row house to the First AME Church Bethel for $410,000. But Rangel left open three building code violations for failing to file an annual boiler inspection report. He owes $1,500, according to the city’s Department of Buildings.

Read more: (Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein, “The Case Against Charlie Rangel,” New York Post, 10/04/09)