My congressman, the thoroughly corrupt Charlie Rangel, is in trouble—again.

Yesterday the NY Post reported that he’s been cheating on his taxes—again.

And today the NY Times reports that, as head of the House Ways and Means Committee, he fought for a tax break for a company that gave $1 million to a graduate school named after Rangel, the Charles B. Rangel School of Public Service at City College of New York.

The school is already an embarrassment. Created with the proviso that it provide Rangel an office after his retirement and house his papers, such as they are, it was funded with a $2 million earmark Rangel pushed through Congress.

(Rangel also used congressional stationery to solicit donations for the school, though the 100 letters he sent out to corporations produced gifts of only $1.6 million.)

Rangel claims that he didn’t even know of the $1 million donation, which is, of course, a lie.

The tax break involved allowing four companies to avoid paying US taxes because they had opened offshore offices in the Caribbean. Rangel initially bitterly opposed it. Then, after the donation, he avidly supported it.

But in 2007, when the United States Senate tried to crack down on the companies, Mr. Rangel, who had recently been sworn in as House Ways and Means chairman, fought to protect them. The tax shelter for the four companies was preserved, saving Nabors an estimated tens of millions of dollars annually and depriving the federal treasury of $1.1 billion in revenues over a decade, according to a Congressional analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

What a wonderful, terrible irony! In order to fund a school of public service with a bribe of one million dollars, a crooked congressman mandates a tax break that costs the taxpayers….a billion dollars.

Just for the record, I voted for the Republican in November. I don’t even know what his name is, and I knew he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. But Rangel must go.

Two final points: First, good for the Times. Another affirmation of the importance of print journalism.

And second, someone seems to have it out for Rangel: There’s a steady drip-drip of bad news about him, and that probably isn’t a coincidence.