Running under the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino, he campaigned to secure for a third consecutive term as Congressman but withdrew from the elections in May 2004.
[3] He ran for his former post as Congressman representing Manila's third district in 2016 but lost to Yul Servo Nieto.
He is one of the reported supporters of the Art Macapagal who ran against Peping Cojuangco for presidency of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) in 2008.
[3] He is appointed by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the 8th chairman of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) in January 2009.
[3] In 2013, Angping and Edmund Montanes, president of Philcare Manpower Services, a janitorial firm, was charged with graft before the Sandiganbayan for the alleged connivance of the two in hiring 80 personnel without public bidding and authority from the PSC board in 2009.