Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/investigation-into-rangels-dealings-intensifies Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The House Ethics Committee is expanding its investigation into Rep. Charles Rangel over a series of questionable financial dealings. Kwame Holman reports. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. KWAME HOLMAN: New York Democrat Charles Rangel has represented his Harlem district for 40 years. He chairs the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.But, since last summer, what started as a trickle of ethics questions has become a torrent of accusations of financial misconduct. The revelations have led Republicans to try to oust Rangel from his chairmanship. The third and most recent attempt came Wednesday.John Carter of Texas introduced the resolution, reading all nine pages and more than 2,000 words of it. REP. JOHN CARTER, R-Texas: Representative Rangel acknowledged his failure to pay — to pay or to publicly disclose at least half-a-million dollars in cash assets, tens of thousands of dollars in investment income, and his ownership of two pieces of property in New Jersey. KWAME HOLMAN: Democrats in the House blocked that effort, and instead referred the matter to the Ethics Committee, which began investigating Rangel last September.Then, yesterday, the Ethics Committee announced it was expanding its probe to include updated financial disclosure forms he filed in August. Those showed Rangel had failed to report more than $660,000 dollars in assets during 2007. The committee also was looking into Rangel's admission that he failed to report $75,000 in rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic.The congressman's finances first came under scrutiny last July, when it was reported that he had broken New York City rules by leasing four rent-controlled apartments, including one he used as a campaign office. Rangel said at the time there was nothing improper about the arrangement. REP. CHARLES RANGEL, D-NY: I don't see anything unfair about it. And I don't — and I didn't even know it was a deal.There are so many people that have come here, and they have rented apartments that have been two apartments made into one. And I really believed that if I could find the same kind of space anyplace in my beloved Harlem, I would find it. I did not negotiate. I did not ask for a lower price. And I'm paying the legal rent. Now, because it's a good deal, that's something else.