WASHINGTON (AP) — A House ethics panel has found Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York guilty on 11 counts of breaking House rules.
The full ethics committee will next conduct a hearing on the appropriate punishment for the former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The committee will then make a recommendation to the House.
Possible punishments include a House vote deploring Mr. Rangel’s conduct, a fine and denial of privileges.
The eight-member ethics panel had sat as a jury to judge Mr. Rangel’s conduct. The 80-year-old congressman from Harlem, New York, was charged with 13 counts of financial and fundraising wrongdoing.
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