Posted on Mar 7, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' Chief of Staff Ran a $1 Million Slush Fund By Diverting Campaign Cash...
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The gift that keeps on giving.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' Chief of Staff Ran a $1 Million Slush Fund By Diverting Campaign Cash...
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Thank you, my friend PO1 H Gene Lawrence.
By the way, I decided to check other news reports. This one from CNN confirms the basic facts from the site you linked to.
"Saikat Chakrabarti's corporation, Brand New Congress LLC, received $867,000 in 2017 from two political action committees he helped found, Brand New Congress PAC and Justice Democrats, Federal Election Commission records show. Ocasio-Cortez's campaign also paid Chakrabarti's corporation more than $18,000 in 2017 for "strategic consulting."
Chakrabarti, a former tech executive, went on to serve as Ocasio-Cortez's co-campaign manager the following year and now runs her congressional office.
This week, a conservative group, the National Legal and Policy Center, filed a complaint asking the Federal Election Commission to audit and investigate the political committees. The group argues the committees skirted campaign-finance laws by paying the large sums for "strategic consulting" services to Chakrabarti's corporation without disclosing details on precisely how the money was spent and who ultimately benefited from the spending.
The complaint comes as the outspoken Ocasio-Cortez has become the face of the Democratic Party's liberal wing and a top target for conservatives. The freshman lawmaker has routinely criticized the role of undisclosed money in politics.
Ocasio-Cortez, Chakrabarti and the lawyer representing the political committees deny wrongdoing.
"There is no violation," Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News on Tuesday.
Federal rules require candidates and committees to disclose in filings with the Federal Election Commission how they spend donors' money. The complaint centers on federal regulations about how much detail candidates are required to disclose about vendor activities."https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/06/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-chief-of-staff-scrutiny/index.html
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By the way, I decided to check other news reports. This one from CNN confirms the basic facts from the site you linked to.
"Saikat Chakrabarti's corporation, Brand New Congress LLC, received $867,000 in 2017 from two political action committees he helped found, Brand New Congress PAC and Justice Democrats, Federal Election Commission records show. Ocasio-Cortez's campaign also paid Chakrabarti's corporation more than $18,000 in 2017 for "strategic consulting."
Chakrabarti, a former tech executive, went on to serve as Ocasio-Cortez's co-campaign manager the following year and now runs her congressional office.
This week, a conservative group, the National Legal and Policy Center, filed a complaint asking the Federal Election Commission to audit and investigate the political committees. The group argues the committees skirted campaign-finance laws by paying the large sums for "strategic consulting" services to Chakrabarti's corporation without disclosing details on precisely how the money was spent and who ultimately benefited from the spending.
The complaint comes as the outspoken Ocasio-Cortez has become the face of the Democratic Party's liberal wing and a top target for conservatives. The freshman lawmaker has routinely criticized the role of undisclosed money in politics.
Ocasio-Cortez, Chakrabarti and the lawyer representing the political committees deny wrongdoing.
"There is no violation," Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News on Tuesday.
Federal rules require candidates and committees to disclose in filings with the Federal Election Commission how they spend donors' money. The complaint centers on federal regulations about how much detail candidates are required to disclose about vendor activities."https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/06/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-chief-of-staff-scrutiny/index.html
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Yep, and I see in the news this morning that Nancy Pelosi has, for all intents and purposes, ceded control of the Democratic Party to her and the other squeaky wheels in the party.
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PO1 H Gene Lawrence - Well, two years of unending baseless investigations interspersed with totally ludicrous statements sounds like a great way to spend our future. Not!!
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