Weeks after mounting legal fees forced him to quit fighting an ethics investigation, U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) was censured by his colleagues on Dec. 2. Though the two-year saga is now over, newly released documents reveal some of the behind-the-scenes negotiations between his legal team from Zuckerman Spaeder and the House ethics committee.
A major point of contention was whether Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) should have recused from Rangel’s planned trial because he had criticized Rangel in the media. Partner Deborah Jeffrey told him in a Aug. 2 letter: “As a former prosecutor, you are surely especially sensitive to the need to avoid raising unnecessary questions about the fairness of the adjudicatory process.” But McCaul, formerly of the Justice Department’s public integrity section, refused, and the committee declined to overrule him.
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