Beleaguered Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel withdrew his divorce against his wife of 42 years on the same day he came clean on his Dominican Republic tax dodge, The Post has learned.
Rangel, whom the House ethics committee is probing for misusing Congressional stationery and a sweetheart rent control deal, had originally blamed his wife, Alma, 77, a retired social worker, for the Caribbean casita tax accounting snafu.
The Congressman filed for divorce on Feb. 13 last year. The case had been scheduled for jury selection Wednesday.
The same day, he agreed to pay $5,000 in back taxes on his Punta Cana Yacht Club retreat and by the afternoon, Alma Rangel’s lawyer, Sherri Donovan, asked the court clerk to release the Manhattan Supreme Court panel.
“I guess they worked it out,” said the jury clerk.
Page Six reported last year that the couple had separated and were living in separate apartments in the same building, but the Congressman always denied it.
Alma Rangel denied any marital strife.
“I don’t know anything about that. My husband is here and we still live together,” she said today. “We have two children and three grandchildren.”
The Congressman refused to discuss it.