Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) chief of staff helped create two political action committees that ultimately paid his corporation $1 million in 2016 and 2017, according to a new Washington Post report, citing federal campaign finance records.
The development was first reported by conservative outlets and Fox News. The corporation, Brand New Congress LLC, is owned by Saikat Chakrabarti, her now-chief of staff. Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign also reportedly paid Chakrabarti’s company an additional $18,880 in 2017 for consulting. It is unclear in the filing who profited from the payments, according to the Post. Chakrabarti worked as a volunteer manager of Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign the year after the payments were made, according to the Post.
An attorney for the campaign, the PACs and Chakrabarti’s company told the Post that Chkrabarti was never paid a salary or profit by any of the three entities.
Read the Post’s full story here.
“Chakrabarti worked as a volunteer manager of Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign the year after the payments were made, according to the Post.”
End of story. Sorry you wasted your time.
It will be fun (and by fun I mean hemorrhoidal) watching the right scream that this is the most wrong thing ever and that AOC is a criminal by association, even though it has yet to be determined that he did anything remotely illegal or even improper (A campaign manaer that used a PAC before signing on with AOC?! Forfend!). Meanwhile, Manafort, Cohen, Flynn, etc… but the President is like butter.
This will in RW media till AOC is forced to resign and her career is finished. Doesnt matter if its legal or not.
Nope.
Is this any different or better/worse than campaign communications folks using their own firms to make ad buys? If people understood how politics and political campaigns helps participants profit, they’d never stop throwing up.