{"id":2030554,"date":"2023-09-13T13:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-denies-being-married-despite-listing-her-fiance-as-spouse-on-disclosures\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:12:37","slug":"aoc-denies-being-married-despite-listing-her-fiance-as-spouse-on-disclosures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-denies-being-married-despite-listing-her-fiance-as-spouse-on-disclosures\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC claims she is not married, despite listing her fianc\u00e9 as &#8216;spouse&#8217; on disclosures."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Faoc-denies-being-married-despite-listing-her-fiance-as-spouse-on-disclosures%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=2030554&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--><h2>Squad \u200cRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s Fianc\u00e9 Listed as &#8220;Spouse&#8221; on Disclosures<\/h2>\n<p>Representative\u200c Alexandria\u2063 Ocasio-Cortez, known as \u200bAOC,\u2062 has raised eyebrows by repeatedly listing\u200b her fianc\u00e9 as \u2064her &#8220;spouse&#8221; on disclosures filed\u2064 with the House Ethics Committee. Despite this, her office denies that they\u200c have gotten married.<\/p>\n<p>In forms submitted to\u200b the ethics panel\u2062 regarding foreign travel in\u2063 2022 and 2023,\u2063 Ocasio-Cortez indicated that Riley \u200bRoberts, her web developer fianc\u00e9, \u2064is \u2063her spouse. This has been the case since January\u2063 of\u200d this year. However, the congresswoman has not made any public announcements about their marital status. Her spokeswoman, \u2062Lauren\u200d Hitt, \u2064has stated that Ocasio-Cortez and\u2062 Roberts are not legally married, but\u2063 rather, the term &#8220;spouse&#8221; is being used to refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-temporarily-demonetizes-beauty-influencer-after-he-admits-sending-sexually-explicit-messages-to-two-16-year-old-boys\/\" title=\"YouTube Temporarily Demonetizes Beauty Influencer After He Admits Sending Sexually Explicit Messages To Two 16-Year-Old Boys\">long-term partners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They are\u2062 not\u200c legally married,&#8221; \u200bHitt said.\u200c &#8220;House Ethics has commonly recognized the term spouse to extend to long-term partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite Hitt&#8217;s explanation, the discrepancy between Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s disclosures and statements could lead to further \u2062investigations into her\u2062 finances \u200cby watchdog groups. In\u200b March, the \u200cOffice\u200c of Congressional\u2064 Ethics found that Ocasio-Cortez\u2064 likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-in-texas-stops-biden-deportation-freeze\/\" title=\"Federal judge in Texas stops Biden deportation freeze\">violated federal law<\/a> by attending the 2021\u200b Met Gala.\u200c The House Ethics Committee subsequently opened\u2062 an investigation\u2063 into the matter in\u200b December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to Hitt&#8217;s comment, the House Ethics Committee strictly defines\u200b a spouse as &#8220;someone to whom you are legally \u2062married,&#8221; according to official documents. The committee oversees the code \u200bof \u2062conduct that governs\u2063 how members of Congress should\u2064 act.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Congressional Ethics considers long-term\u2063 partners of lawmakers to be &#8220;synonymous \u2064with a spouse,&#8221; but its power is \u2064limited by the\u2062 House Ethics Committee. The Office of \u2062Congressional \u200bEthics can\u2062 only make recommendations to the \u2064ethics panel regarding \u200denforcement, and its decisions\u200d are \u2064not legally binding.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez publicly announced her \u2062engagement to Roberts in May of\u2064 the\u2062 previous year. When asked about wedding plans,\u2063 she\u2064 responded, &#8220;We&#8217;re \u200btaking some space to savor\u200d this\u2062 time before diving into\u2064 planning.&#8221; If \u2063they are \u2063indeed married, Ocasio-Cortez should have reported\u2063 Roberts&#8217; salary\u200c on her \u20632022 financial disclosure, according to Kendra Arnold, executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and\u200d Civic Trust.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There is no exception to\u2063 this rule,&#8221; she told the Washington\u2063 Free Beacon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lawmakers who intentionally misrepresent information in official\u200b filings could face civil penalties of up to $50,000, as stated by\u200c the House Ethics\u2064 Committee. In extreme\u200c cases, individuals could even face up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez listed Roberts as her spouse on\u2063 her \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-denies-being-married-despite-listing-her-fiance-as-spouse-on-disclosures\/\" title=\"AOC claims she is not married, despite listing her fianc\u00e9 as 'spouse' on disclosures.\">post-travel disclosure\u200b form<\/a> for her February trip to Japan and South\u2064 Korea, sponsored by the\u200d Maureen and Mike \u2062Mansfield Foundation. She also referred to Roberts\u200b as\u200d her &#8220;spouse&#8221; on filings for\u2062 her\u200d August trip to South America, which was funded\u200d with the help of George \u2064Soros&#8217;s Foundation to Promote Open Society.<\/p>\n<p>For both of these trips, Roberts\u2064 reportedly paid for his own\u200b expenses.<\/p>\n<p>These \u200drevelations about Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s \u200ddisclosures are significant as she continues to position herself as an advocate for ethics. In April, she co-sponsored a \u200dbipartisan measure that would prohibit \u200dmembers of \u200dCongress from\u2062 trading \u200cstocks.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200d August, the\u2064 congresswoman\u2062 called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for\u200d allegedly\u200d failing to \u2062report significant\u200d gifts. Conservatives argue that Thomas was not required to \u2062disclose \u200cmany of these gifts, as there were no\u200b laws\u2062 mandating such disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>The House Ethics \u2063Committee and Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s office did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<h3>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">here<\/a> to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Squad&#8221; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has consistently referred to her fianc\u00e9 as a &#8220;spouse&#8221; on House Ethics Committee disclosures, despite her office&#8217;s denial of marriage. Ocasio-Cortez listed Riley Roberts, her web developer, as such in four forms related to upcoming foreign travel in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2030555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}