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-Lurid Crime Tales-
AOC's chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies
2019-03-05
[Washington Insider] Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.

The cash transfers from the PACs ‐ overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff ‐ run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics.

Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used.

The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.

Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as "really weird" and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went ‐ meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  Reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes and her pet Indian of Theranos fame.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-03-05 22:28  

#14  Well, look. You got the skeleton crew at Notional Review talking incessantly about the death schism on the right. You got Goldt*rd and Kristol Meth starting a new gig because they know their old ones are done or near done.

So you can pretty much tell the truth is on the other side of the coin...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-05 12:09  

#13  Wonder if the corrupt democrats will use this as an excuse to cut-out the open socialists from their midsts (knowing they are mostly unelectable).
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-03-05 12:01  

#12  Maybe we should look into her taxes to see if there was collusion????
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-03-05 09:55  

#11  Normally the other dems would have circled wagons and kept things quiet.

Seems like they are done with her bullshit and are letting her hang herself with the rope she made.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-03-05 09:38  

#10  What a newb...

An expert grafter would have set up a charitable foundation, not a business!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-03-05 08:07  

#9  Obviously Mr. Chakrabarti read the book. Or as BP indicates at #10, perhaps not.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-03-05 07:55  

#8  Well. It's proof capatalism is eeeeeevil! Look how quickly it corrupted this marxist angel.

/sarc
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-05 07:30  

#7  Sorry, just posted this under the wrong name.

Ocasio-Cortez’s home cooking video contradicts address claims lies.
Fixed at 8:45 a.m. ET. Please note: when submitting an article, paste the article URL into the Source box, putting the name of your source in square brackets at the beginning of the article’s text. That way clicking on the headline will take our readers directly to the thing. I had to scroll through several days of Weasel Zipper articles to find the one you posted. Many thanks.

— trailing wife
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-03-05 06:41  

#6  In pix her nose/chin is up Obama style. She is confident she has this crisis covered/paid for.
Posted by: Beau   2019-03-05 06:00  

#5  During her campaign she was wearing $3,000 dresses. She was a candidate to skim campaign money. After she won she had to lie about not being able to afford an apartment before her first pay check. I thought it odd she was running around saying that kind of stuff so publicly.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2019-03-05 04:29  

#4  Dam. She really IS a Socialist!!
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2019-03-05 02:02  

#3  Who Is Paying for Sandy O?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-03-05 02:00  

#2  Democratic party looking for a way to deal with their problem child?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-03-05 01:54  

#1  Young socialists.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-03-05 01:10  

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