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Rangel tells Harlem crowd God doesn't want him to take plea

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3:52 PM on 08/06/2010

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From New York Daily News

Rep. Charles Rangel says God doesn't want him to cop a plea.

Under pressure from Democratic colleagues to make a deal on ethics charges and avoid a public trial, the scandal-scarred congressman said Thursday that a higher authority told him not to settle.

"How lucky you are that God tells you you don't have to take a plea," a fired-up Rangel declared to a Harlem Week luncheon crowd at Columbia University, which gave him a standing ovation.

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