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Ocasio-Cortez Now Facing Another Ethics Investigation For Campaign Finance Violations

TFPP Wire By TFPP Wire
Published April 3, 2019 at 11:24am
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in another jam as she is now faced with her third ethics investigation is as many months.

The complaint was filed on Wednesday with the Federal Elections Commission by attorney Dan Backer and the Coolidge Reagan Foundation.

Becker said that Ocasio-Cortez was engaged in a “subsidy scheme” that violated election finance laws, and said that she is “a mediocre cocktail slinger who flunked history can run for Congress,” The Daily Mail reported.

The money came from a pair of political action committees controlled by Ocasio-Cortez and her congressional chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, who was also her campaign manager. His for-profit company has since closed its doors.

Election law dictates that the difference between what the campaigns paid the company and the work’s value on the open market is an ‘in-kind’ contribution, and counts against the limit on how much a single person or PAC can donate to any given campaign.

The Justice Democrats PAC and Brand New Congress PAC were each limited to giving $10,000 to individual candidates, half during primary campaigns and half during general elections.

Backer claims Chakrabarti’s Brand New Congress LLC, a company he dismissed Wednesday as a ‘dark-money slush fund,’ did ‘in excess of $1 million’ worth of work for the 13 campaigns, all at cut-rate prices, accepting just $173,101 from them in payment.

The company used $867,014 from the two PACs to cover the shortfalls created by its ‘overhead and infrastructure costs.’ according to the FEC complaint.

‘Through this complex web of shadowy entities, Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti ensured the flow of hundreds of thousands of dollars of unreported, illegal, dark money contributions to aid the campaigns of Ocasio-Cortez and other far-left Progressive Democrats,’ the complaint reads.

Should she resign from Congress?

Backer compared the arrangement to an intentional version of a failing pizza delivery service.

“Shaun McCutcheon and I foot what few bills we have, and my firm provides pro bono legal services,” Backer said.

“What really grinds my gears is that what they did SHOULD be legal – but it’s the virtue signaling hypocrites like The AOC who are demanding we make political speech and association even harder and more complex – which increases the costs and keeps people out,” he said.

“If we want a society where even a mediocre cocktail slinger who flunked history can run for Congress, it shouldn’t only be possible on the knee of a dark money sugar daddy like Chakrabarti,” she said.

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