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Ocasio-Cortez Chief of Staff’s Campaign Finance Funneling Controversy Grows

Wednesday, 6 March 2019, 22:15 MJA Uncategorized 13

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Chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Saikat Chakrabarti, is under growing scrutiny for funneling more than $1 million in campaign donations to corporations he owned in 2016 and 2017.

First reported by the Washington Examiner and then other conservative outlets, the Washington Post followed up with report Tuesday that said that the arrangement was a “sharp juxtaposition” with Ocasio-Cortez’s calls for transparency in politics, noting that the congresswoman has called dark money “the enemy to democracy.”

“The money that flowed to her chief of staff’s corporation have subjected the first-term congresswoman to critics’ charges of hypocrisy,” reported the Post‘s Michelle Ye Hee Lee.

“In a normal situation, if all you saw was a PAC that disbursed hundreds of thousands of dollars to an affiliated entity to pay the salaries of people who were really working for the PAC, that looks [like] a PAC that takes in money to engage in political activity but is actually enriching its owners,” Adav Noti, a former Federal Election Commission lawyer who is now chief of staff of the Campaign Legal Center, told the Post.

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed a complaint Monday with the Federal Election Commission, alleging that the scheme violated campaign finance reporting requirements.

According to the complaint, Chakrabarti established two PACs, the Brand New Congress PAC and Justice Democrats PAC, then systematically transferred more than $885,000 in campaign contributions received by the PACs to corporations he established — Brand New Campaign LLC and Brand New Congress in 2016 and 2017.

Corporations, unlike PACs and candidate campaigns, are exempt from reporting or itemizing all of their significant expenditures, and leave hidden who benefitted from the money.

“These are not minor or technical violations. We are talking about real money here,” Tom Anderson, director of NLPC’s Government Integrity Project, said in a statement. “In all my years of studying FEC reports, I’ve never seen a more ambitious operation to circumvent reporting requirements.”

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13 Comments on Ocasio-Cortez Chief of Staff’s Campaign Finance Funneling Controversy Grows

  6. @Tony R: “She was just an innocent bystander.”

    yeah about as innocent as a cow fart in a phone booth
    Her name is on the PAC as one of the 3 principle officers, and that PAC was donating to her campaign. She put her name there, not anyone else. She ain’t innocent, and she also claims to have a degree in economics, so she isn’t ignorant, either. Next she will say she didn’t ‘intend’ to do anything wrong. The way things were juggled around, it was crafted, and she only thinks what she did was wrong because she got caught. And all because she make a flippant remark to someone who asked her about her boyfriend’s new (now gone) .gov email account.
    it certainly didn’t take long for princess sparkle pony to get caught with her hand in the cookie jar

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  7. Looks like the Dem leadership is tired of OAC’s mouth being in overdrive. Pelosi doesn’t like it when anyone, especially some young upstart freshman claims that “I’m the boss”. Nancy can’t have that, everyone knows that Nancy is the boss and they damn well better understand it…..or else.

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  10. “Chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Saikat Chakrabarti, is under growing scrutiny…”

    The media has now made this all about Bad Man Sailcat. She’s going to get a pass, and now the FEC will follow the media’s lead by focusing on Sailcat in whatever inquiry theater they are forced to present. If thechope is that Alcatraz Courtez gets indicted, are done here.

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  11. Democrats feed on political distraction, OAC is playing her part, just like Sanders did. Results in getting actual valuable things done in Washington is not the objective. Just damaging or distracting the opposition anyway they can, day after day.

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  12. Bad Brad, cow farts smell better than democrap farts. At least cows fart outside, every word uttered by a democrap is a loud Bronx cheer and full of shit. Maybe that’s their problem democrap farts are more like sharts because they sure shit their pants all the time with all the lies they tell.

  13. @Bad_Brad March 6, 2019 at 10:51 pm

    > http://trump-train.com/2019/03/06/brutal-warning-to-america-from-egyptian-woman-wake-up-or-be-wiped-out/

    So, Islam are the only ones willing to roll back communist progress (as opposed to conservatives, patriots, and the rest, “fighting the good fight” by mumbling “Now hold on there. Ok. Now go ahead.”)? Actually roll back? Actually “fix” the problem? So it won’t return. For a few generations, at least.

    And, that’s a problem… why?

    (Oh, yeah… I already get the whole “having to mumble ‘there is no god but allah…’ blah, blah” offends “patriotic” pride. So does swearing allegiance to communists, whatever communist they set on the throne. So does paying for transgender kiddie porn taxes. So does killing babies because their feral wombs are verklempt. “Patriots” proudly corrupt themselves every day they do what they know is wrong, because “patriotism”! Meh.)

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