I'M EVICTING MYSELFRANGEL TO QUIT ONE OF HIS 4 BARGAIN APTS.By DAPHNE RETTER, Post Correspondent
WASHINGTON - Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday he will give up one of his four rent-stabilized apartments, for which he has paid about half of market rate for more than a decade.
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Rangel's announcement that he would move out of one of his Lenox Terrace apartments, which he was using as a campaign office, came as a Washington-area watchdog organization filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission.
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State and local regulations require tenants of the discounted apartments to use them as their primary residences.
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Said Boehm, "His case doesn't look that good. It went on for more than a decade, it involved thousands and thousands of dollars, and he had every reason to know it was improper."
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Just two days prior to Rangel's announcement yesterday, the congressman indicated he was unlikely to change his current living situation, which allows him to pay cut-rate rents for four adjoining apartments on the 16th floor of Lenox Terrace on West 135th Street.
"I don't see anything unfair about it," Rangel said last week.
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FEC records show that Rangel's campaign committees have accepted $4,500 in campaign contributions from the building's owner, Sylvia Olnick, since 2004.
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