Where does Rangel get his money?

The heat is being turned up on Charlie Rangel. If you haven't been following the story, Rangel is the head of the Ways and Means committee. He controls taxing people for what they earned, yet somehow has managed to accumulate numerous properties and wealth.

How does Rangel have so much money and where did it come from?

This is a man who draws a salary from the government of about $175,000 a year.

It’s a comfortable salary, but it certainly isn’t going to make anybody this rich — especially someone living in one of the world’s most expensive cities.

Rangel did not inherit a fortune and did not marry one. And nor had he built some huge fortune before he first won election to Congress in 1970.