Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff illegally moved $885K in campaign contributions

[bripat9643]

When are you going to start bleating that he should go to prison?

When he is convicted. Why do you ask?

You didn't wait for that in the case of anyone in the Trump administration.

 

[bripat9643]

I'm sure you all recall how the Dims have been calling for Trump to go to prison for the perfectly legal action of paying Stormy to refrain from slandering him. They claim it's a campaign finance violation. Do you think any of them will be calling for AOC's chief of staff to go to prison? Watch the orgy of hypocrisy commence.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/02/ocasio-cortezs-chief-of-staff-might-have-broken-campaign-finance-laws/

The most powerful person in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office is a tech millionaire with homes in the West Village and Maryland, who is behind a set of inter-related companies raising ethical eyebrows with good-government groups.

Saikat Chakrabarti, 33, is the hard-left freshman’s chief of staff — the brains behind initiatives like the Green New Deal and the founder of a trio of companies that catapulted Ocasio-Cortez into Congress.

But those companies raise red flags with government-watchdog groups who say Chakrabarti may have skirted campaign finance law.

Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign paid Justice Democrats, a Tennessee-based PAC founded by Chakrabarti, a total of $41,108.59 for “campaign services” and “strategic consulting” in 2017 and 2018, Federal Election Commission filings show.

But PACs are not vendors and cannot provide more than $5,000 a year worth of services for any single candidate, according to FEC regulations. If candidates go above this amount, they need to seek advice directly from the FEC.

“They believe their cause is so great that they don’t have to play by the rules,” said Tom Anderson, who heads up the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center in Virginia, a conservative watchdog group. “They believe that they are above campaign finance law.”​

Then report them.....in your fear of her.

She's already been reported, shit for brains.

 

[Snouter]

Donkey Face Cow Fart and that terrorist looking Chief of Staff going to prison is going to be hilarious.

 

[Aldo Raine]

OH SHIT......Jail time!!!!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide illegally funneled more than $1 million in 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 into two of his companies that did campaign work, skirting reporting requirements, said the complaint by the 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, a 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.”

The PAC money went to Mr. Chakrabarti’s Brand New Congress LLC and Brand New Campaign LLC, entities that unlike PACs and candidate campaigns do not have to report or itemize their spending.

The Ocasio-Cortez campaign also was paying Brand New Congress LLC for “strategic consulting.”

Mr. Chakrabarti, a Silicon Valley tech millionaire who delved into far-left politics, was instrumental in the long-shot win for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez win over veteran politician Rep. Joseph Crowley and was rewarded with the chief of staff job.

Another FEC complaint by filed last week by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation alleged Brand New Congress PAC was involved in a scheme to funnel money to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s live-in boyfriend, Riley Roberts.

At the same time Mr. Roberts, a 29-year-old web developer, received payments totaling $6,0000 as a “marketing consultant” for the PAC, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign was paying Brand New Congress LLP for strategic consulting.

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The guy on his shirt was a Nazi.

No joke, no exaggeration. Imagine if an R wore a Goering T-Shirt.

Take hime to court. Every politician or campaigner who commits white collar crime should face punishment. Right?

This is the correct response

 

[candycorn]

Earlier it was over a million:

AOC: Classic Democrat. Funneled $1 million to Boyfriend.

Good to see the amount is getting less and less. LOL

 

[Snouter]

IMO the terrorist looking Chief of Staff of Donkey Face Cow Fart is the tip of the iceberg. There is more to this charade!

 

[theHawk]

OH SHIT......Jail time!!!!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide illegally funneled more than $1 million in 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 into two of his companies that did campaign work, skirting reporting requirements, said the complaint by the 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, a 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.”

The PAC money went to Mr. Chakrabarti’s Brand New Congress LLC and Brand New Campaign LLC, entities that unlike PACs and candidate campaigns do not have to report or itemize their spending.

The Ocasio-Cortez campaign also was paying Brand New Congress LLC for “strategic consulting.”

Mr. Chakrabarti, a Silicon Valley tech millionaire who delved into far-left politics, was instrumental in the long-shot win for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez win over veteran politician Rep. Joseph Crowley and was rewarded with the chief of staff job.

Another FEC complaint by filed last week by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation alleged Brand New Congress PAC was involved in a scheme to funnel money to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s live-in boyfriend, Riley Roberts.

At the same time Mr. Roberts, a 29-year-old web developer, received payments totaling $6,0000 as a “marketing consultant” for the PAC, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign was paying Brand New Congress LLP for strategic consulting.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...

The guy on his shirt was a Nazi.

No joke, no exaggeration. Imagine if an R wore a Goering T-Shirt.

Was that her boyfriend? Or was that illegal money a different thing altogether ?