The House Ethics Committee has announced plans to put Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel of New York on trial for allegedly breaking congressional ethics rules. The New York Times reports part of the trial will focus on Rangel’s misuse of his office to preserve a tax loophole worth half-a-billion dollars for an oil executive who pledged a $1 million donation for an educational center being built in Rangel’s honor. Rangel also faces accusations that he wrongly accepted four rent-stabilized apartments in Manhattan. The eighty-year-old Rangel has vowed to fight the charges and plans to seek his twenty-first term in the fall.