Ocasio-Cortez Linked ‘Justice Democrats’ PAC Questioned on Contributions

Justice Democrats made donations to retire debt to committees that reported no debt.

WFB: A political action committee linked to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y) is being questioned on potentially impermissible contributions that it made to a number of Democratic committees last year, according to a letter from the Federal Election Commission.

The FEC sent a request for additional information to the Justice Democrats PAC, a far-left group that helped elect Ocasio-Cortez to Congress, on May 30 after conducting its preliminary review of the PAC’s amended July quarterly report from 2018. Ocasio-Cortez was listed as a governor of the group until recently.

The FEC states that the amended report from Justice Democrats disclosed one or more contributions to federal candidates for the “retirement of debts incurred during the 2018 Primary election campaign” and that the committees that received the payments themselves had “insufficient debts to warrant such a contribution” from the PAC.

These potentially improper contributions from Justice Democrats include: $1,211 to David Clark, who was a Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District; $324 to Greg Edwards, also a former Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania’s 7th District; $733 to Sameena Mustafa, who was a candidate in Illinois’s 5th District; $384 to Jennifer Marshall, who was a candidate in North Carolina’s 5th District; $281 to Ricardo Jose Trevino Jr., who was a candidate in Texas’s 23rd District; and $216 to Jimmy Darnell Jones, who ran in Texas’s 2nd district; among a handful of others.   more here