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After her shaggy boyfriend was called a “bin raccoon,” New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to social media to tout his new haircut. The freshman Democratic congresswoman from the Bronx posted a video showing off beau Riley Roberts’ fresh look after people ripped him to shreds over his appearance in the Netflix documentary “Knock Down the House.” “The internet roasted Riley into getting a haircut/glow up after #KnockDownTheHouse,” Ocasio-Cortez, 29, captioned the video on her Instagram story. In the footage, she can be heard fawning over Roberts, 29, telling him, “You look good! Ooooh, look at that shape-up!” Roberts’ makeover...

An FEC complaint alleges AOC may have illegally funneled thousands of dollars through an allied PAC to her boyfriend. DC-based Coolidge Reagan Foundation allege in their complaint that when the Brand New Congress PAC (BNC) -- a political arm of Brand New Congress LLC, hired by Ocasio-Cortez, to run and support her campaign -- paid Riley Roberts for marketing services, it potentially ran afoul of campaign finance law. “It’s not illegal to pay her boyfriend, but it appears they created some sort of scheme to avoid claiming the money [as a campaign expense].” What exactly did he do for that...

Writer/reporter Luke Thompson divulged last week that Rep. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, set up her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, with an official house.gov email address, noting that he was “drawing a salary on the taxpayer’s dime.” The self-avowed democratic socialistic was quick to dispute that notion, responding to say Roberts was set with the email account to access her Google calendar, which may not be entirely within House rules, given that they don’t appear to be married — the haste in which Ocasio-Cortez responded verified the accuracy of the boyfriend having a government email address. And Thompson is back this week with...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing ethics questions after revelations the freshman lawmaker's office gave her boyfriend a congressional email account. The democratic socialist waded into the issue in response to a tweet alleging boyfriend Riley Roberts had been put on staff. The tweet included a screenshot of an official House email address. Ocasio-Cortez insisted that he was only given the email account so he could access her calendar. “Actually this calendar designation is a permission so he can have access to my Google Calendar. Congressional spouses get Gcal access all the time,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote, after a political consultant Luke Thompson...