Maybe Rep. Charles Rangel should ask his wife to fill his nearly empty campaign coffers.
The Harlem Dem’s campaign committee ended the year with just $5,033 in the bank, according to its latest federal filing.
Meanwhile, during his re-election campaign, Rangel revealed that he had forgotten to list one of Alma Rangel’s investments on his federal disclosure forms.
“My accountant discovered that my spouse had invested in a fixed annuity contract in 2002,” Rangel explained in a letter to Karen L. Haas, clerk of the House of Representatives.
That year his wife invested between $15,001 and $50,000, according to his disclosure. The investment then earned between $1,000 and $2,500 each year until 2010, he revealed.
The censured congressman, who racked up almost a dozen ethics violations for failing to disclose his true income and cheating on his taxes, called his latest financial omissions “inadvertent.”
Rangel also came clean about a $5,107 IRA distribution made in 2011.
Other updates to his financial-disclosure forms were his affiliations with the boards of the New York City Empowerment Zone and the Ann S. Kheel Trust.
Rangel’s office did not return a call for comment.