'Mediocre cocktail slinger' Ocasio-Cortez faces THIRD election ethics complaint..

Daily Mail UK ^ | April 3,2019 | David Martosco

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'Mediocre cocktail slinger' Ocasio-Cortez faces THIRD election ethics complaint as pro-Trump PAC's lawyer claims her chief of staff's firm illegally did cheap political work for AOC and a dozen other Democrats

Conservative lawyer's FEC complaint says Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff engineered an illegal campaign funding scheme in 2018

She and Saikat Chakrabarti used his company, according to attorney Dan Backer, to work for her campaign and 12 others at far below-market prices

Campaign laws consider the discount to be an 'in-kind' contribution that's subject to reporting and legal limits

Backer and his organization, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, say the company intentionally ran at a loss and used PAC money to make up its shortfalls

The PACs were only allowed to give $5,000 to each campaign during the general election, but poured $867,000 into Chakrabarti's firm for its work

Ocasio-Cortez ran her campaign, sits on the board of one of the PACs and helped Chakrabarti run his company, according to the complaint

Backer actually wants campaign donation limits eliminated

Complains that 'a mediocre cocktail slinger who flunked history can run for Congress' but insists it should be possible without an illegal 'subsidy scheme'

Democratic socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing a new Federal Election Commission complaint from a conservative lawyer who says she engaged in a 'subsidy scheme' to violate election finance laws, and lamented that 'a mediocre cocktail slinger who flunked history can run for Congress.'

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, helped lead a for-profit company that worked on her campaign and a dozen others, but provided fundraising, organizing and other services so cheaply that it went out of business, according to an FEC complaint filed Wednesday by attorney Dan Backer and his Coolidge Reagan Foundation.

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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. 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. Attorney Dan Backer, the campaign finance lawyer behind Wednesday's FEC complaint against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

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

[SkyDancer]

Currently putting in a resume for her old job back.

[Fiddlstix]

Click The Pic For Link

[CatOwner]

She’s obviously new to politics and has made some mistakes. She’ll do better in the future. /s

[Political Junkie Too]

Just like all the other politicians, use the illegal campaign funds to get into office, and then vow to give the money back (but not the office), after the election when the violation is discovered and the money served its purpose.

-PJ

[yoe]

There are rules and there are laws for liberals.....

[robel]

I mean, like, this is rediculous.

[TonytheTiger7777]

She is lawless and in Resistance to the established authority, nothing is illegal in her twisted mind. Thats why she will walk around smirking, impiously defying your ‘social constructs’ of outdated white privlege laws and laughing at you peasantry.

[SkyDancer]

Pretty much what FDR did during the Depression; made businesses pay minimum wage thereby causing those businesses to fire employees. Women were to be paid more than men. In Chicago a woman elevator operator who was making $71.50 a month was fired and a man hired at $35/mo because he wasn’t under the minimum wage law required to pay women.

[dsrtsage]

She must have really pissed off the party leaders. Ethics are only for republicans

[rhombus10]

AOC: money, money, money... it shouldn’t be so complicated.

[Revel]

More here:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/breaking-rep-ocasio-cortez-and-campaign-manager-chakrabarti-implicated-in-brazen-scheme/

[Doogle]

[SGCOS]

I can hear it now re: AOC and the border closing..

"ok, fine...In goes the avacado, out comes the guacamole..Where does the pit go? "

[eyeamok]

Sure sounds like a Jailable offense to me, LOCK HER UP!!.

[arthurus]

If she is brought up on charges she will most like likely be let off based on diminished capacity and lack of ability to understand the charges. The Occasionally Cortical has ONE talent. She memorizes easily and repeats from a memorized script skilfully. When she has to answer a question for which she has not been given an answer to memorize she speaks nonsense,she babbles.

[Kid Shelleen]

>> She must have really pissed off the party leaders. <<<

Pelosi was raised by a gangster. Those old timers don't like getting shown up by a cugine.

[GOP Poet]

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[imardmd1]

She’s obviously new to politics and has made some mistakes. She’ll do better in the future. /s

Your sarcasm is correctly placed, but what everybody seems to be missing is that regardless of her mental fitness, she most certainly has advisors prepping her in clothing and cosmetics that produce stunning images to capture the attention of the ever-increasing segment of society whose focus is on appearance.

That is a golden ticket to media attention, as well as her bold statements that though illogical, make headlines that float the carefully crafted photoimagery--almost Hitlerian in impact and scope.

This is the factor that no one should disregard. It ia an aspect that opposition can only respond to, not block from exposure. Without it, she would be a zero.

[Liz]

FOX NEWS REPORT: AOC's COS Saikat Chakrabarti “was on all sides
of the lucrative scheme” while serving as Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign manager:
<><> Chakrabarti owned and operated Brand New Congress LLC,
<><> is signatory on all Brand New Congress LLC checks,
<><> sat on Justice Democrats PAC board,
<><> co-founded AOC's campaign money-machine....Brand New Congress PAC,
<><> handled Brand New Congress PAC checks,
<><> served as candidate AOC's campaign manager,
<><> now serves as elected AOC's COS.

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The FEC complaint asserts that AOC's COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, early on established two PACs that raised big bucks for AOC's campaign:
<><> the "Brand New Congress PAC,"
<><> the "Justice Democrats PAC."

After mucho money was raised, Chakrabarti systematically transferred $885,000+ in PAC contributions to his private companies with similar names:
<><> the "Brand New Campaign LLC,"
<><> the " Brand New Congress LLC."

Saikat Chakrabarti's LLC's (private companies), unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures.

NOTE WELL: it's a much-used criminal act to enrich oneself, to open bank accounts using similarly named
entities to siphon off money, to hide it from partners, associates, investors, etc.

SIPHONINGS A CINCH It's easy to siphon off money for oneself by putting checks into the new accounts with similar names, depositing checks that were made out to
the original entity. Even your bank advises that if a check-writer "mis-spelled" your name, to just endorse the check with the correct name.

AND PRESTO: a check made out to Brand New Congress PAC, is deposited in the Brand New Congress LLC account.