This is one sign of former Congressman🌄 Charles Rangelꦚ’s legacy.
The🦩 accounting-challenged Harlem Democrat stiffed the city for $12,164 in fines amassed for improperly putting up campaign posters, stickers and handbills.
The city hit Rangel for Congress committee with 148 violations🍎 in June 2014 for illegally posting the signs or placing literature on windshields. Each fine came with a $75 penalty that with interest has increased to $82.19.
The fines date to Rangel’s primary battle against Adrꦫiano Espaillat, whom the veteran Congressman defeated before securing his 23rd and last term in the House. He announced his retirement in February 2016 and Espaillat won election later that year to replace him.
The debt to the city does not appear on paperwork filed witꦉh the Federal Election Commission by Rangel’s campaign committee. The committe𝔍e shut down in 2017.
Rangel told T😼he Post that a collection agency had been calling him for payment𝄹 of his city debt.
“They are looking 🅰into my ability to pay a fine, which I can’t pay,” Rangel said. Rangel ran afoul of ethics rules during his 46 years in Congress including failing ♕to pay tax on income from a Caribbean villa he owned, which was first revealed by The Post.