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Rangel has spent more than 200K fighting congressional censure

Rep. Charles Rangel is still fighting his long court battle to have his congressional censure overturned.

He’s spent more than $200,000 to date — and has been filing legal papers through a lawyer who was disqualified from the case, The Post has learned.

The 83-year-old Democrat, who has represented Harlem since 1971, was censured in 2010 for occupying four rent-stabilized apartments in a Manhattan building.

He and his wife lived in three of them, Congress charged, and he used the fourth as a campaign office.

He was also blasted by Congress for failure to pay taxes on a Dominican hideaway he owns.

In December, a Washington appeals court dismissed his case.

He tried to refile it a month later, but the judges said the New York lawyer who had been handling it, Jay Goldberg, was not licensed to practice in Washington.

But Goldberg is still filing papers for Rangel.

Meanwhile, Rangel has blown through at least $203,000 in campaign donations so far to fight the censure, including $70,000 from a special “legal expense trust,” which acts as a separate account for censure-related bills.

But unlike in 2010, when tens of thousands were donated to the fund to help his cause, no one is contributing to it anymore, according to recent filings for 2014.

The law allows donations of up to $5,000 per person or business.

Rangel is also in a tough fight to hold on to his seat, which he kept after a close primary challenge in 2010 from state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who is running against him again.

Neither Rangel nor Goldberg immediately returned calls for comment.