DC: Democratic Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez and her top aide are no longer board members of the outside PAC credited with orchestrating her political rise, according to a corporate document filed Friday to a Washington, D.C., agency.
The New York Democrat and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, joined the board of Justice Democrats in December 2017, according to the political action committee’s website. It also said the two held “legal control over the entity” at the same time it was playing a key role in supporting Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign prior to her shock victory over incumbent Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in June 2018.
Attorneys for Ocasio-Cortez said she was removed from Justice Democrats’ board in June 2018, but she was listed an “entity governor” of the PAC as recently as March 14, according to corporate filings, The Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported.
Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti were officially removed from Justice Democrats’ board on March 15, according to a corporate document filed that day to the Washington, D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.
It’s unclear why it took Justice Democrats more than eight months to formally remove Ocasio-Cortez from its board. The PAC did not respond to a request for comment.
Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that she and Chakrabarti controlled Justice Democrats while it simultaneously supported her primary campaign.
If the FEC finds that her campaign and the PAC were operating in affiliation, it could result in “massive reporting violations” or potentially even jail time for Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti, former FEC Commissioner Brad Smith previously told TheDCNF. Another former FEC commissioner, Hans von Spakovsky, wrote in a March 10 Fox News op-ed that he believes there’s sufficient evidence to “justify opening a criminal investigation” into Ocasio-Cortez.
Alexandra Rojas and Demond Drummer replaced Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti on Justice Democrats’ board. Both have close ties to the congresswoman. more here
Blatant illegality and coordination to evade taxes. Same as Clinton did with the DNC before Brazile took over.
What does illegality matter if the law is never enforced?
Unless your name is Manafort. If it’s Podesta, you’ll get immunity for testifying against someone when you did worse.
“entity governor” WTF weasel jargon is this?? Sounds like a Ghostbuster tool.
Those two may have been removed on paper, but I bet they still run it “under the table”.
Justice Democrats was/is just a pass through for ActBlue which is the largest Democrat SuperPAC in the country.
These aren’t fly by night neophytes here. They have the lawyers and are blatantly violating the law. This is the Howard Dean / DailyKos / Nutroots Nation wing of the disloyal opposition coordinating as a 501 (c) 3.
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/actblue-ab/
Remember, Manafort ripped off the taxpayers. ActBlue is tax deductible org on a multibillion dollar warchest.
These two slippery snakes need to be removed from US Government positions. They’re just there to cause chaos, obviously. Take those Moslems with you also!
Good luck spending $200T behind bars on the green gnu deal. What is it like $35k per year spent on prisoners?
Spend it on her anyways – 5,714,285,714 years behind bars.
Laws don’t mean anything when you’re in a protected political class.
The corrupt trying to control the corrupted. What a joke.
Rats scrambling in a legal move to try and distance themselves from potential investigations and (hopefully) prosecutions. Let the cover up begin!
I mean it’s not like they had a chinese communist on staff for 20 years, took $100’s of Millions for their foundation while selling US Uranium to the Russians or destroyed Secret and top secret evidence and their server after it was subpoenaed.
Not exactly a breach of National Security, it’s just another Socialist entering the House of Representatives as a democrat through illegal campaign contributions. Nothing new.
The FEC (the paper tiger) will slap their wrist and fine the PAC about 1/4 of what they illegally gave AOC for her campaign.
Sandy, is this because of racism, sexism, Fox News or Trump?
AG Barr needs to step up or step down.
Horse
Barn door
You know the rest.
they are trying to pull the ‘tony podesta maneuver’