Corruption Investigation Widens For Rangel
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The investigation into ethics violations by Manhattan congressman Charles Rangel continues to widen.
The House ethics committee says it's expanding its probe to include recently filed disclosures that reveal he failed to report $250,000 to $500,000 in assets in 2007.
The committee also said it has authorized nearly 150 subpoenas in the investigation of Rangel and interviewed some 34 witnesses.
Rangel was already under investigation for a series of ethics allegations, including his use of rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem and taxes related to a vacation home in the Dominican Republic.
This comes just a day after the GOP tried and failed again to oust Rangel from his post as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
A spokesperson for Rangel called Thursday's development, a "technicality."