{"id":1417418,"date":"2022-04-04T07:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417418"},"modified":"2022-04-04T07:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:59:46","slug":"fec-aocs-campaign-and-ex-chief-of-staff-failed-to-disclose-1-million-in-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fec-aocs-campaign-and-ex-chief-of-staff-failed-to-disclose-1-million-in-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"FEC: AOC\u2019s Campaign and Ex-chief of Staff Failed to Disclose $1 Million in Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffec-aocs-campaign-and-ex-chief-of-staff-failed-to-disclose-1-million-in-expenses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417418&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>he campaign of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\">New York<\/a> Rep. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> and her former chief of staff were found to have failed to report roughly $1 million in expenses. <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Election Commission released filings on Thursday from a two-year investigation surrounding allegations that Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s former chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, funneled $1 million through two <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/politics\">political<\/a> action committees, Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, according to the <i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/02\/aoc-campaign-did-not-properly-disclose-expenses-fec-probe\/\">New York Post<\/a><\/i>. Despite the findings, the FEC voted to dismiss a complaint lodged against Ocasio-Cortez by the National Legal and Policy Center in March 2019. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The FEC has gone after a whole host of people whose violations are dwarfed by the scale of this scheme,&#8221; Paul Kamenar, the attorney for the NLPC, said in a statement to the outlet. &#8220;It appears to be not prosecutorial discretion, but prosecutorial favoritism.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/aoc-calls-tucker-carlson-creep-over-invitation-to-a-booty-call-book-review\">AOC CALLS TUCKER CARLSON &#8216;CREEP&#8217; OVER &#8216;INVITATION TO A BOOTY CALL&#8217; BOOK REVIEW<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The NLPC&#8217;s complaint claims that Chakrabarti funneled the money through two political action committees into two organizations, according to the outlet. The money transferred might have been in violation of the $5,000 limit for donations to federal candidates, according to the complaint. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation from the FEC found that the two PACs &#8220;did not properly disclose the purpose of the disbursements&#8221; to the shell companies, according to the outlet. <\/p>\n<p>In response to the findings, the NLPC filed a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lawsuit\">lawsuit<\/a> against the federal <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elections\">election<\/a> integrity organization for failing to provide a reason for dismissing its complaint, according to the outlet. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was highly irregular for the FEC to release its statement of reasons after the deadline for us to file suit,&#8221; Tom Anderson, the director for the NLPC&#8217;s Government Integrity Project, told the outlet. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The FEC&#8217;s findings come more than 30 days after the agency voted to dismiss the complaint against Ocasio-Cortez, according to the outlet. <\/p>\n<p>The <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> reached out to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a statement but did not receive a response back.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her former chief of staff were found to have failed to report roughly $1 million in expenses. 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