Rangel Ethics Probe Expanded

The House Ethics Committee yesterday expanded its investigation into Rep. Charles Rangel to include millions of dollars in assets, outside income and business transactions that he had failed to disclose to Congress.

The committee’s expanding probe — new information released yesterday shows it is extensive — comes after The Post reported in August that Rangel that month had filed seven years worth of dramatically revised financial-disclosure forms in a bid to clean up his records.

The panel’s announcement of a stepped-up investigation came the day after Republicans forced a vote on the House floor on whether to remove Rangel from his powerful chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee. The GOP effort was defeated.

Read more: (Charles Hurt and Geoff Earle, “Wringing Rangel,” New York Post, 10/09/09)