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So, its your position that Rangel was criminally charged?
And, you dig in to defend that assertion?
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He was charged with ethics violations, some of which are crimes. He was convicted of those violations in an ethics trial, before an ethics panel. He was found guilty of failing to report income, of using government staff and resources to raise money for a private library named after him, and of occupying four rent-controlled apartments, and Congress censured him for it.
So if your question is whether I'm willing to stand by calling that behavior "criminal", the answer is a resounding yes, because it was.