AOC’s COS Diverted $1 Million Campaign $$$ to His Own Companies?

Update at the end

It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws.

THE STORY

AOC and her Chief of Staff could be in some trouble. They ran the PAC that gave heavily to her campaign until her election. It was instrumental in getting her elected. About $1.8 million passed through the PAC and if Cortez and Chakrabarti operated in affiliation with the PAC as it appears they did, they face MASSIVE reporting violations.

Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the FEC that she and Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, controlled the PAC while it was simultaneously supporting her primary campaign, and former FEC commissioners say the arrangement could lead to multiple campaign finance violations.

A former FEC chairman Brad Smith told The Daily Caller it could result in jail time for both Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti.

Also, two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide allegedly funneled nearly $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to an FEC complaint filed on Monday, Washington Examiner reported.

The laws don’t apply to Socialists you know so we wouldn’t be surprised if this is true. Socialism is a lucrative scam for the elite socialists but not for anyone else.

DARK MONEY AND TRANSPARENCY

If true, the cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC’s Chief of Staff —  show comrade Ocasio-Cortez’s pledge to reduce dark money in politics is fraudulent just like her.

Chakrabarti is the co-founder of Justice Democrats, the hard-left group attempting to fill up Congress and local legislatures with other Socialists.

Chakrabarti’s companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used. That’s ironic since AOC also ran on transparency.

Something is “amiss” according to campaign finance attorneys.

UPDATE

Both AOC and her Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti have responded and said nothing illegal took place.

The JD and BNC websites had this explainer on it before @ryangrim ever asked us. We were doing something totally new, which meant a new setup. So, we were transparent about it from the start. Here’s me talking about it on MSNBC in May, 2016. https://t.co/0fSoOiuWus https://t.co/VFBvBSgi41

— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) March 5, 2019

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