For a freshman member of Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is remarkably swampy.
During the 2018 election, her campaign funneled payments to Brand New Congress PAC, which in turn funneled payments to Brand New Congress LLC, which then made payments to her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, meaning the then-candidate effectively funneled money back to herself, according to Federal Election Commission filings compiled this week by GOP operative Luke Thompson.
W]hile Brand New Congress PAC's ten largest expenditures were paid to Brand New Congress LLC for 'strategic consulting,' a sum that totaled $261,165.
A month later Brand New Congress PAC then turned around and paid Riley Roberts another $3,000.
Why would Chakrabarti, a founding engineer at Stripe and a wealthy veteran of Silicon Valley, be hiring a no-name 'UX Experience' guy with little discernible marketing experience to serve as Brand New Congress PAC's sole marketing consultant?
"It looks to me like Chakrabarti was effectively reimbursing AOC for a third of her expenses with Brand New Congress LLC, perhaps so that she would stay in the race despite her mounting debt," Thompson theorizes, adding it "Seems probable Chakrabarti was reimbursing her for her campaign expenses off-books. Brand New Congress PAC simply served as a pass-through to do so."
Considering Ocasio-Cortez has been in office for only 48 days, this is all rather impressive, these details about how money traded hands between the Brand New Congress PAC and LLC and the fact that her boyfriend received a couple of big-ticket payouts.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-office-sure-looks-swampy
During the 2018 election, her campaign funneled payments to Brand New Congress PAC, which in turn funneled payments to Brand New Congress LLC, which then made payments to her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, meaning the then-candidate effectively funneled money back to herself, according to Federal Election Commission filings compiled this week by GOP operative Luke Thompson.
W]hile Brand New Congress PAC's ten largest expenditures were paid to Brand New Congress LLC for 'strategic consulting,' a sum that totaled $261,165.
A month later Brand New Congress PAC then turned around and paid Riley Roberts another $3,000.
Why would Chakrabarti, a founding engineer at Stripe and a wealthy veteran of Silicon Valley, be hiring a no-name 'UX Experience' guy with little discernible marketing experience to serve as Brand New Congress PAC's sole marketing consultant?
"It looks to me like Chakrabarti was effectively reimbursing AOC for a third of her expenses with Brand New Congress LLC, perhaps so that she would stay in the race despite her mounting debt," Thompson theorizes, adding it "Seems probable Chakrabarti was reimbursing her for her campaign expenses off-books. Brand New Congress PAC simply served as a pass-through to do so."
Considering Ocasio-Cortez has been in office for only 48 days, this is all rather impressive, these details about how money traded hands between the Brand New Congress PAC and LLC and the fact that her boyfriend received a couple of big-ticket payouts.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-office-sure-looks-swampy
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