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WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., who until his recent troubles was one of the House’s most powerful members, was found guilty Tuesday of breaking 11 congressional rules related to his personal finances and his fundraising efforts for a New York college.

The eight-lawmaker subcommittee that handled the trial — and reached a unanimous verdict on 10 of the counts — will now send the case to the full ethics committee for the equivalent of sentencing. Potential punishments include a formal reprimand or censure, with either of those needing to be ratified by a vote on the House floor. Expulsion is considered highly unlikely.

The full committee will take up the issue Thursday.

Rangel was not present for the ruling. He walked out of the trial Monday after the panel rejected his request to delay the proceedings because he had spent $2 million on his defense and had no campaign money left to pay for a legal team.

He released a statement blasting the decision.

“How can anyone have confidence in the decision of the Ethics Subcommittee when I was deprived of due-process rights, right to counsel and was not even in the room?” it said. “I can only hope that the full Committee will treat me more fairly, and take into account my entire 40 years of service to the Congress.”

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., who chaired the trial, praised her colleagues for their handling of the case, which landed uncomfortably in their laps in July after talks with Rangel over a plea deal broke down.

“This has been a difficult assignment, time-consuming, and we have approached our duties diligently,” Lofgren said.

The trial subcommittee, split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, essentially ratified all but one of the original 13 charges filed against Rangel by an investigative panel in July.

Those charges pointed to a collection of infractions related to four central elements of the case: that Rangel improperly used his congressional staff and official letterhead to raise seven-figure donations from corporate charities and chief executives for a college wing named in his honor; violated New York City rules by housing his political committees in his rent-controlled apartments in Harlem; did not pay taxes on a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic; and did not properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal financial assets.

This occurred while he served as the ranking Democrat or chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, which has oversight of tax issues. He resigned as chairman in the spring when he was found guilty of a more minor infraction related to accepting corporate-financed travel.

After Tuesday’s decision, most Democrats declined to address the issue. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent, emerged as one of Rangel’s strongest supporters, rejecting any call for the 20-term veteran to resign.