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

[Crepitus]

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti obtained majority control of Justice Democrats PAC in December 2017, according to archived copies of the group’s website, and the two appear to retain their control of the group, according to corporate filings obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.


If the Federal Election Commission (FEC) finds that the New York Democrat’s campaign operated in affiliation with the PAC, which had raised more than $1.8 million before her June 2018 primary, it would open them up to “massive reporting violations, probably at least some illegal contribution violations exceeding the lawful limits,” former FEC commissioner Brad Smith said.

Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the FEC that she and Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, controlled the PAC while it was simultaneously supporting her primary campaign, and former FEC commissioners say the arrangement could lead to multiple campaign finance violations. The group backed 12 Democrats during the 2018 midterms, but Ocasio-Cortez was the only winner.

“If the facts as alleged are true, and a candidate had control over a PAC that was working to get that candidate elected, then that candidate is potentially in very big trouble and may have engaged in multiple violations of federal campaign finance law.

And fellow former FEC commissioner Brad Smith told TheDCNF that if “a complaint were filed, I would think it would trigger a serious investigation.” He also noted that such a probe could potentially result in jail time for Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff, Chakrabarti.

Republican election attorney Charlie Spies told TheDCNF: “It looks like the campaign and PAC are under common control and the PAC was funding campaign staff and activities as an alter-ego of the campaign committee, which would be a blatant abuse of the PAC rules.”

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She has acquired TOO MUCH POWER..... the DEATHRAT leadership realizes they fucked up! Did people think Joe Crowley would just curl up and go away? He has people combing over every piece of paper this Cortez has touched in the past couple years. Cortez is dealing with the DemonRAT machine. They don’t have ethics and they know how to cheat and steal. They know where all the bodies are buried. Cortez at the very least will be primaried out in the next election. ... Crowley is working in the meantime to destroy her and her team. A special election is in the makings....OR being N.Y. they will simply REDISTRICT HER!

Former dude says "if" and "could".

Riiiight, let's go with that.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Please do not put AOC in jail.
She is the best free entertainment that we have.

 

[beautress]

Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff illegally moved $885K in campaign contributions 'off the books,' FEC complaint alleges She and her staff have explaining to do

I think the penalty should be to put the illegally moved money into the Wall account.

 

[Edgetho]

This is the lead story on Foxnews.com and in mentioned only in part of another story on CNN.

Our country in a nutshell.

Since you don't go to FNC except when directed by your Masters to do so, you wouldn't know that Fox moves headline news down the blotter as events uncurl.

The story on Donkey Chompers has been displaced as the header since about 9:00AM.

They do that all day, every day.

Uninformed imbecile. Go back to Vox. They don't use big words

 

[Harpy Eagle]

This is the lead story on Foxnews.com and in mentioned only in part of another story on CNN.

Our country in a nutshell.

Since you don't go to FNC except when directed by your Masters to do so, you wouldn't know that Fox moves headline news down the blotter as events uncurl.

The story on Donkey Chompers has been displaced as the header since about 9:00AM.

They do that all day, every day.

Uninformed imbecile. Go back to Vox. They don't use big words

Pretty sure CNN does that too. But since I only open each of them once in the morning, I would not really know.

Unlike you, I do not spend all day, every day on a single news site being told what to think.

But, it seems to make you happy so have at it.

 

[Pete7469]

i posted this in a few existing AOC threads yesterday. plenty to choose from but yea, we started off finding what, $6k? now closing in on a million bucks?

she's in some deep shit.

so, now an allegation equals guilt?

When allegations are made against republicrats you're one of the first sniveling bed wetters to insist they're guilty, who do you believe you're kidding Goofy Gay Turd?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

i posted this in a few existing AOC threads yesterday. plenty to choose from but yea, we started off finding what, $6k? now closing in on a million bucks?

she's in some deep shit.

so, now an allegation equals guilt?

When allegations are made against republicrats you're one of the first sniveling bed wetters to insist they're guilty, who do you believe you're kidding Goofy Gay Turd?

I will send you 100 bucks if you can find one example of me doing so.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

But Dems will offer excuses and she will pay a fine. Trump on the other hand they find one penny out of place and they will push for him to be gone. AOC is the new leader of the party, Pelosi may act like the riechsfurer of the SS but she is only a titular head.

How will she pay a fine? She's broke, remember!

 

[blackhawk]

 

[otto105]

Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff illegally moved $885K in campaign contributions 'off the books,' FEC complaint alleges She and her staff have explaining to do

What exactly law/rule are you claiming that she broke?

 

[Snouter]

Time to lock up Donkey Face Cortez!

 

[rightwinger]

And you guys complain when we look into Trumps campaign

Obama was caught breaking campaign finance laws and paid the biggest fine in history. I figure this is a warning to AOC from Democrats to "cool your jets".

BS

 

[rightwinger]

Time to lock up Donkey Face Cortez!

Nothing Burger

 

[The Original Tree]

Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff illegally moved $885K in campaign contributions 'off the books,' FEC complaint alleges She and her staff have explaining to do

Most likely she was Colluding with Russia, to help her Fund Her New Green Socialist Jihad.

 

[whitehall]

There is no allegation that the Trump campaign did anything illegal, that's why the desperate left is going after his private investments. You almost gotta laugh that the crazy angry left sees no hypocrisy in a socialist politician secretly violating the law to pad the wallets of capitalist investors.

 

[The Original Tree]

But Dems will offer excuses and she will pay a fine. Trump on the other hand they find one penny out of place and they will push for him to be gone. AOC is the new leader of the party, Pelosi may act like the riechsfurer of the SS but she is only a titular head.

How will she pay a fine? She's broke, remember!

Not now.

Netflix gave her $10 Million dollars to do a Documentary on her after she told Amazon to go fuck themselves and told her constituents that they don't need 25,000 jobs paying near $100,000 a year.

Press on with The New Socialist Green Jihad AOC. Maybe you can starve out the entire population of New York with your stupid ideas, and get rich in the process.

The Clintons made millions on the suffering of people in Haiti, so you might as well join them.

 

[BluesLegend]

But Dems will offer excuses and she will pay a fine. Trump on the other hand they find one penny out of place and they will push for him to be gone. AOC is the new leader of the party, Pelosi may act like the riechsfurer of the SS but she is only a titular head.

How will she pay a fine? She's broke, remember!

Not now.

Netflix gave her $10 Million dollars to do a Documentary on her after she told Amazon to go fuck themselves and told her constituents that they don't need 25,000 jobs paying near $100,000 a year.

Press on with The New Socialist Green Jihad AOC. Maybe you can starve out the entire population of New York with your stupid ideas, and get rich in the process.

The Clintons made millions on the suffering of people in Haiti, so you might as well join them.

Breaking news, AOC is now saying she's open to Amazon coming back to NY. She folded like a cheap lawn chair.

 

[Snouter]

Someone must have explained to Donkey Face Cortez some basic examples of the law of supply and demand, and how tax incentives work.

 

[blackhawk]

So if Donald Trump paying two women $280,000 total to keep alleged affairs quiet is the major offense some have made it out to be even an impeachable one according to some how serious is the alleged offense by the AOC campiagn and what should the punishment be if guilty?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

So if Donald Trump paying two women $280,000 total to keep alleged affairs quiet is the major offense some have made it out to be even an impeachable one according to some how serious is the alleged offense by the AOC campiagn and what should the punishment be if guilty?

Obviously hung from the neck until dead.