Updated 09/20/2008 04:45 PM
Rangel Pays Over $10,000 In Back Taxes
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Embattled Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel has written six checks to cover back taxes on his vacation properties.
Rangel sent the checks totaling $10,800 to New York State and the Internal Revenue Service Friday.
The congressman's office says the checks cover unpaid taxes from previously unreported income on his vacation homes the Dominican Republic and Florida.
Rangel has been under fire recently regarding those properties and his use of three rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem.
A House ethics panel plans to investigate, and Republicans have called for Rangel to be removed from his powerful position as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
The congressman released an open letter to New Yorkers yesterday saying he has done nothing wrong and is the target of a Republican guerrilla war.