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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Arrest please DOJ BARR.
ReplyDeleteThey 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.
ReplyDeletePrison sounds good.
ReplyDelete“In all my years of studying FEC reports, I’ve never seen a more ambitious operation to circumvent reporting requirements.”
ReplyDeleteDon't you wish you could have a deep look at Hillary's?