Federal Election Commission Complaint: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Aide Hid $1M

| March 5, 2019

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Just breaking, seems there are some shenanigans concerning AOC and her CoS. They could face prison if the FEC determines that they knowingly and willfully withheld their ties between the campaign and the political action committee from the FEC to bypass campaign contribution limits.

Michelle Moons
An FEC complaint filed Monday charges Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, her Chief of Staff, and others with using two PACs and LLCs to hide hundreds of thousands in campaign dollars.

A Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed Monday accused Cortez chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti of using two PACs (Political Action Committees) he founded to funnel around $1 million to two of his private companies, according to the Washington Examiner. The companies may have been used to hide what funds were spent on.

The NPLC complaint takes aim at the possibility contributions from the PAC to candidates exceeded the $5,000 FEC limit. It requests an FEC investigation into the two PACs for creating “an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures.”

Read the entire article here: Breitbart

Tip of the hat to HMCS(FMF)

Category: Guest Link, Legal, Politics, SJW Idiocy

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SSG Fon

and is anyone surprised that a avowed communist believes that rules apply to others and not herself?

HMCS(FMF) ret

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USMC Steve

I would suspect the original tip off for this came from Nancy Pelosi and gang. Occasionally Conscious has been really pissing them off since she got there.

A Proud Infidel®™️

I have no doubt at all about that, all too often when someone first gets elected, the lifers will pretend to be their friends while gathering all the dirt they can on them to use for manipulation and the Babbling Bucktoothed Big-eyed Bimbo from Westhaven wasted no time in pissing the insiders off!

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

I called this … my crystal ball never lies.

Karma is catching up with her dogma!

Greg Roy

Bernie needs to teach her how to buy three houses to hide the cash.

NEC338x

The neofeudalist of the governing class like rabble-rousing communists as much as they do liberty-loving deplorables – not at all. That allegations start coming out of the woodwork by those who are monitoring the electrons flowing in, out, and around the country is unsurprising. Anonymous leakers in her staff will start being quoted next.

Youth and arrogance seem to have led her to believe that she is special, rather than recognition that she’s just a tool for another agenda.

Roh-Dog

She might be a commie but she’ll be used to activate the terror cells, the state will react, empowering the select aristocracy to establish ‘feudalism’.
Doesn’t matter the name of the plantation, how we get there, who does it, who’s in charge…what matters is the servitude.

docduracoat

She threatened other Democrats with being put on a list.
Now she is accused of corruption.
She is true to form as she is a socialist.
Tyranny and corruption are their stock in trade

RetiredDevilDoc8404

She forgot the first rule about things in the swamp, don’t piss off the older swamp dwellers if you’ve pulled some shady deals. You threaten them and their place at the trough, your shenanigans find their way to light. Welcome to the swamp, AOC your alligator mouth might just have overloaded your canary azz…

26Limabeans

Bingo!
Her own party elite want her gone.

jonp

They are already planning to Primary her. Didn’t take long for her to piss off everyone that matters including the NY Dem Machine because of that Amazon crap. Her days are numbered

A Proud Infidel®™️

I bet they started planning on how to primary her the first week she started running her bucktoothed mouth! Once she gets primaried, I wonder where she’ll go tend bar?

Thunderstixx

She’ll be hired by CNN or one of the other clown networks as an analyst after she get tossed…
Betcha ten bucks on that one…

A Proud Infidel®™️

I dunno, even MSDNC has called her out on her bullshit.

MSG Eric

Hell, they probably told her to do this so they could use it against her later if necessary.

I doubt they thought “necessary” would come so quickly.

5jc

I lol’d

OWB

Because the rules which govern others do not apply to the specialest of the most high specials among us. They just don’t. She may soon discover that she isn’t really one of the elites for whom a VERY special set of special rules apply within the most special rules of those in power. Her delusions are about to collide with reality here.

Bwess her widdle bwack heart. Yeah, SHE’s soooo In Charge, uh-huh.

rgr769

She views herself as a true believing party apparatchik, so rules don’t apply to her.

Daisy Cutter

AOC will be like Anthony Weiner. Recall a time when he was the most outspoken member of the Democratic party, ready and willing to stick his finger in anyone’s eye.

Then, his secret life came to the surface and he quieted down. Now he is in prison and the only finger that gets stuck… well, you get the picture.

Now we have AOC, another flash in the pan.

rgr769

He is out now, in a halfway house.

5jc

Please tell me he has internet access there.

USMCMSgt (Ret)

My prediction is nothing will come of this.

She’ll get a pass.

Mason

This is the sad truth. They always get a pass or, at worst, a fine. So they all do it.

Twist

She’ll get a pass because it’s (D)ifferent when she does it.

OWB

Unless this becoming public knowledge was sanctioned…

HMCS(FMF) ret

AOC has another problem – looks like her Soy-Boi Toy has a congressional e-mail account (only spouses can have one of those).

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-faces-questions-after-her-boyfriend-gets-congressional-email-account

Girl just can’t stop pissing people off and breaking the news…

Tim Merritt

Can’t help but wonder if the DNC might be behind this.

Nancy doesn’t like little twits like this proclaiming:
“I’m the boss”.

Like Nancy or hate her she hasn’t survived in the “Ultimate Boys’ Club” for this long without being a shrewd operator.

BlueCord Dad

I’m not a big fan of Madam Speaker, but if she turns She Guevara into roadkill, I’d hit it😎

Mason

“She’ll cut your head off, and you won’t even know you’re bleeding.” – Pelosi’s daughter.

So Nancy Pelosi is a lot like ISIS. If you believe her family.

Keepin' It Real

There’s something creepy about her eyes and I can’t put my finger on it.

It’s a Marty Feldmen thing happnin’ or something.

Help me out.

The Other Whitey

Ojos-Locos

BlueCord Dad

Good one TOW

26Limabeans
Ex-PH2

Hyperthryoidism is what gave Marty Feldman the bug-eyed look. He knew he had it and used it to boost his career as a comic actor.

Please, just let this numbskulled politico run off a cliff’s edge.

Blaster

Do as I say, not as I do!

thebesig

Looks like her ass may not be able to cash the checks that her alligator mouth is making. 🙄

Mason

She’s always got her degree in economics and international relations to fall back on. Oh wait, she’s proved “[She’s] not the expert.”

I guess he next most marketable skill is as a rooftop go-go dancer.

The Other Whitey

Whaddaya know, a corrupt socialist! Who saw this coming—besides everybody who ever paid attention?

Remember, she’s “the future of the democratic Party!”

Mason

Her, Tlaib, and Omar. So you’ve got morons who are openly socialist, anti-American, supporting of terrorist organizations, and anti-Semitic. Some future they’ve worked themselves into.

Which is probably why so many old white men are running for the nomination for 2020.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

It remains to be seen if there’s any substance to this accusation, and if there is substance to what level.

FEC violations resulting in fines are fairly common. Almost every national election campaign ends up paying some penalty for failing to report in time, for failing to file appropriate notices.

It’s interesting to me how the DNC liked AOC when she was energizing the youth aspect of the party in similar fashion to what Bernie did a few years ago but are somewhat less comfortable with her now. I suspect it’s because AOC, like Bernie, represents a sea change the centrists aren’t ready for in their party.

It occurs to me the one thing the DNC fears more than Trump is being labeled as socialists, and AOC and Bernie both embrace that term. I think the DNC knows at its root “socialist” is a hard sell to the average American.

When it comes to capitalism versus socialism I will paraphrase a quote I like, “Capitalism is the worst kind of “ism” there is, except for all the others”

Perry Gaskill

One of the reasons FEC fines are likely common is because the donation rules are mind-numbingly complicated. All those PACs are also 503(C)4 non-profits which adds other issues. Also, in getting background for the post yesterday, I was struck by how young the AOC-related players are. Ocasio-Cortez herself is only 29; the director of the Justice Democrats PAC, Alexandra Rojas, is 23. These are mostly millennials with little apparent adult supervision in the room.

Another interesting aspect, for somebody who might want to follow the money, is that apparently during the primary against Joe Crowley, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign reported spending around $200,000. After she beat Crowley, in the period between the primary and general, that number would jump to more than $2 million.

Mason

Press junkets and celebrity show appearances ain’t cheap. She’s such a woman of the people after all.

SFC D

Heard a comment on Fox & Friends this morning (forgot who said it), pretty much said that if they ran afoul of the FEC rules through ignorance or sloppiness, it’s a fine. If intent to conceal the cash or subvert the law is found, it’s jail.

5jc

Looks to me like straight up old fashioned money laundering and theft.

SFC D

Yup, I’m hoping you’re correct.

5th/77th FA

Shore glad I bought into the popcorn futures and the packaging plants. Those profits along with the winnings from the FGS will enable me to hire some more help for, and give a nice bonus to Outcast. Where dahell is Jeff LPH. This keeps up, we will have to have those Brinks Trucks.

We all called this one Master Chief, in one form or another. Old Cotex’s shenanigans are just the proverbial tip of the iceberg for the absolute corruption that has been going on in the swamp for decades. She hasn’t been up there 3 months yet, and the slime is already oozing. Anybody got a shocked face I can borry?

Commissar

AOC is not implicated in thus, is not believed to have violated rules, and did not benefit in any unethical way. Her campaign also reported these funds.

Way to write this to make it appear she was violating the rules.

He “aide”, who is now a senior member of her staff was running a political consulting firm. The amount he was paid by AOCs campaign, which AOC reported, exceeded thresholds that required his consulting firm also make disclosures.

He and his firm failed to make the proper disclosures.

She made the proper disclosures, her consultant did not.

OWB

Wouldn’t it have been easier to just say, “Way to go, AW1Ed,” since you seem to be in complete agreement with what was written?

Evidently not. Blah, blah, and more blah seems to be your default position whether it relates to the topic or otherwise indicates a rudimentary comprehension of the written word.

A Proud Infidel®™️

I thought for sure he was going to blame it on President Trump!

SFC D

It’s still early.

7711C20

The only problem is she was one of three controlling governors of the PACs where the money went to.

Mason

So was Cohen paying off that porn star a campaign violation?

Commissar

Yes.

Don’t even try to spin me as partisan on corruption.

I hate corrupt politicians from both parties. I think corrupt politicians should be strung up by their toes with their throats slit or shot and left to rot in a ditch.

I hate th Clintons. I hate that our politicians have largely legalized most of the mechanisms of their own corrupt and that SCOTUS has rubber stamped their right to do so.

Trump is absolutely a corrupt piece of shit. He is not only profiting off his office he is doing it in the open and both weakly lies about it while saying that as president he is exempt from it being illegal to do so. The fact that he is using his office for profit is an indepsutable fact of public record.

The fact that he committed crimes to effect his election chances just makes his corruption all the more enfuriating.

But fortunatley he is too damn stupid to limit his activities to legal mechanisms of corruption and even if he clings to office, because the republicans have proven themselves to be feckless cowardly dirtbags, his children will get indicted within months and he will be indicted the moment he leaves office.

Perry Gaskill

I’ve been working on a possible TAH post about the current status of the Trump investigations, including Mueller’s and the more recent wet dreams of Nadler and Schiff. So far, there have been no indications of any grounds for impeachment except those for alleged Russian collusion and alleged obstruction.

Your comment about Trump and corruption-for-profit is like Oakland, Lars. There’s no there there.

Mason

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“ORANGE MAN BAD”

Hondo

Not implicated? The FEC appears to think she could be. From the original Washington Examiner article about the matter, which you obviously didn’t bother to read:

The complaint names Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti as respondents.

FWIW: if this was done at her request or with her approval, that’s conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws. If she learned of it after the fact and didn’t bother to report it, that’s misprison of felony (assuming the crime itself is a felony, which I believe it indeed is).

You know, Poodle, on rare occasions you actually add to the discussion with your comments. Unfortunately, 99+% of the time you fail to do your homework before opening your yap and end up talking out of your 4th point of contact when you comment here.

5jc

Oh boy somebody is upset that the golden child got caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

Commissar if you really believe that funnelling millions in campaign donations to her boyfriend is innocent activity then you must be the dumbest person on Earth.

Thunderstixx

Never a doubt…

The Other Whitey

Unethical/dishonest/illegal activity is okay when Lars’s socialist heroes do it.

11B-Mailclerk

As I read it, it was around $800k mishandled, not “millions”. And BF only got a few thousands, personally.

But had she another year, ” millions” would have been correct.

Watch the corrupt leftists trying to absolve her, or slough it off on minions.

And proglodytes wonder at why their socialist schemes seem to become wildly corrupt and fail, alongside epic corruption by the commissars …

rgr769

The number is $885K.

A Proud Infidel®™️

I wonder if the MSM will pick up on this and report on it? Part of me thinks we’ll hear crickets and the other part thinks maybe they’ll tell about it at the command of the likes of Pelosi and Soros, a wet-behind-the-ears Freshman newbie in DC does not run around stepping on others’ toes sans consequences, I’m betting that Pelosi has already been sharpening her blade for the next swipe at the Babbling Bucktoothed Bimbo From Westchester!

*Opening another bag of nachos and dip with a fresh cold beer *…

5jc

Not a peep.

OWB

Conversely, are her fellow lefties lining up to defend her? (Been away from obsessive absorption of news, so really don’t know for sure.) If no, might that indicate she’s on her own? Perhaps even that the public display of her misdeed was sanctioned??

OK. Making this much more complicated than it need me.

OWB

or “be,” dadburnit…

Veritas Omnia Vincit

Her fellow lefties need to tread carefully, Bernie’s wife is a turd of large proportion when it comes to mishandling money.

Not that it means Bernie mishandles money, but he also has paid an FEC fine (small money 14.5k) so it’s pretty clear FEC violations are easy to find. Bernie’s never had much in the way of real jobs so his inability to properly understand money and economics might be better left to his wife except for those pesky allegations about her…fortunately for her the Feds declined to prosecute but she put a college out of business in the process. The two of them are very capable of bankrupting the nation along with their enthusiastic useful idiot from the Bronx and her questionable economics degree.

Roh-Dog

Diapers and politicians…
As much as the Dims and Republicrats want to get her inline, I’m warning you she still has a function.
The militant base had been activated and someone eventually must wield them.
Enforcement wing of the neofeudalists, unaccountable to only the ideology, unregistered weapon of terror.

A Proud Infidel®™️

“Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often and for the same reason.” – Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

RGR 4-78

No wonder she could not afford the D.C. apartment rent until she got her first congressional pay check. (sarc)

ChipNASA

Saw this on the internets…..

AOC = “A”= Ass, O = “hole”, “C” = See?!?

TAH DAH

HMC Ret

She will cry that it is a witch hunt promulgated by the Trump administration. That will get traction with like-minded whackos and the lame stream media. Bank it

‘I ain’t dun nuttin. You all be misogynist and rassists.

She ‘might’ have a condition known as Exophthalmos, AKA bug eyed. It is often associated with hyperthyroidism. Making an observation here, not a diagnosis. Also, hyperthyroidism could possibly explain her sometimes whacky behavior. What do you mean, sometimes?

Ex-PH2

Marty Feldman had that condition, knew it, and capitalized on it as a comedian.

Garold

Patrick Moore had it right – Pompous little twit.

Given AOC is so good at giving advise from her kitchen I’m thinking she might make a good bartender.