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Tuesday, March 05, 2019

AOC chief of staff accused of hiding more than $1 million in campaign cash

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide illegally funneled campaign donations to two companies he owned, according to a complaint filed Monday with the Federal Elections Commission.

Saikat Chakrabarti set up Brand New Congress PAC to collect and bundle donations for newbie politicians including Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. He then diverted more than $1 million to two of his companies that did campaign work, skirting reporting requirements, said the complaint by National Legal and Policy Center.

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

He added that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, “has been quite vocal in condemning so-called dark money, but her own campaign went to great lengths to avoid the sunlight of disclosure.”

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Arrest please DOJ BARR.

Anonymous said...

They need to really investigate that matter and see if any of that money found it's way back to AOC personally. I'm feel sure that anyone with a name like Saikat Chakrabarti is a fine upstanding America loving citizen.

Anonymous said...

Prison sounds good.

Anonymous said...

“In all my years of studying FEC reports, I’ve never seen a more ambitious operation to circumvent reporting requirements.”

Don't you wish you could have a deep look at Hillary's?