It looks like we have an answer for why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief-of-staff abruptly resigned on Friday; he’s under federal investigation.
According to the New York Post, Saikat Chakrabarti - the architect behind AOC’s meteoric rise from bartender to ball-buster, is being investigated in connection with two political action committees he founded.
The two PACs being probed, Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, were both set up by Chakrabarti to support progressive candidates across the country.
But they funneled more than $1 million in political donations into two private companies that Chakrabarti also incorporated and controlled, according to Federal Election Commission filings and a complaint filed in March with the regulatory agency.
In 2016 and 2017, the PACs raised about $3.3 million, mostly from small donors. A third of the cash was transferred to two private companies whose names are similar to one of the PACs — Brand New Congress LLC and Brand New Campaign LLC — federal campaign filings show. -New York Post
As the Post notes, PACs are required to adhere to stringent disclosure rules, while the private companies Chakrabarti funneled money into are not.
According to a complaint filed by Virginia government watchdog group - the National Legal and Policy Center, Chakrabarti’s LLCs appear to have been specifically designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements.
As noted by the Washington Examiner in March:
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. -Washington Examiner
According to the Post, “Federal authorities are looking at new salary rules imposed by Ocasio-Cortez when she took office earlier this year, and whether they were put in place to let Chakrabarti dodge public financial-disclosure rules, according to sources.”
Interestingly, the Harvard-educated Chakrabarti agreed to take a massive pay cut this year - taking in just $80,000, while the average pay for his position is $146,830. With a salary below $126,000, he was not required to disclose his outside income.
And now, he’s under federal investigation.
via zerohedge
Well, this surely is a vast right wing conspiracy! Right? Let me answer, NO WAY! It is about time somebody did something about this, I heard about it months ago as did all of you!
Now, if we can trust the FBI to do their job honestly, in a nonpartisan way and, if they find evidence of wrong doing, indict, prosecute and send guilty parties to jail! I am sick of “everybody” saying NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW! By golly, they are not! If people are not punished for criminal acts, THEY WILL NEVER STOP COMMITTING THEM!
Makes me wonder if AOC might have actually taken notes from Crooked Hillary’s book, and learned how to screw everyone, and that the person that she put in charge would be her scapegoat?
i do not believe anything will come of this because she,s a DUMOCRAT and that will protect him from any prosecution WATCH AND SEE he and she are both CROOKS
They will never be prosecuted. You have to remember they are Democraps and are allowed to do what ever they want, just like Hillery.
Everything about AOC stinks to high heaven. Either she is smarter than whe would leave us to believe of she has some pretty smart crooks working for her. I wonder sometimes if the Dems have an employment agency for crooks so that they can rapidly supply the incoming Freshmen with crooks from the beginning in order to ease the adjustment into Congress.
WHAT TOOK SO LONG????
If this were a conservative, it would dominate the news cycle for the week-end or until the drive by media could spin it to point at President Trump.
Is America great. Job opportunities all over.
Example From a bartender to congress.
AOC is about to get Loomered. Laura Loomered is running for Florida US Congress. We really do need all these hot new conservatives from online & anywhere else, like garbage truck drivers or cooks or whatever to get themselves on a ballot - if brain-dead demonrat narcissist criminal psychos can win a seat in congrees, let the war begin.
The career politicians have to beat moved out & voters are ready to vote for a dishwasher if that”s what comes up, to get rid of the congressional career swamp rats.
We heard about this months ago, still no prosecution. Seems some people walk around committing crimes and get a GET OUT OF JAIL CARD. Let regular citizens commit the same crimes and they get thrown under the jail, never to be free again. Wake up America, our voices need to be heard in Washington.
Are these allegations or has he been charged with a CRIME? Don’t say that “no one is above the law”, when there are several of the current President’s cabinet members still walking around waiting to be sentenced or interviewed. If that man broke the law,then interview him and turn him loose until his trial date. He didn’t commit a violent crime of any kind.
This is how it starts.. and you’re absolutely blind if you can’t see it. She knew from the beginning..
The boat is sinking, slowly, with more Liberals to come……let’s see how the LIBERALS feel about continued investigations……what’s good for the goose is good for the GANDER…..
In the case of Alexandria Cortez I suspected that her chief of staff was not assigned to her by the Congress but rather brought in by her to the Congress. On the surface he is her aide. In reality he is her boss and puppet master. She is only a puppet. She has no brain, no ideas. Everything is fed to her by this Chakrabarti. I just found out that I was completely right. I just watched a Youtube video by Videographer Mr. Reagan. He gives a highly convincing and evidence laden video titled “The Brains Behind AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU). It is worth watching.
You are correct. She is at BEST, only a puppet. I am friendly with some one who went to Yorktown *(NY) HS with her. She was Sandy Ocasio-and always interested in politics. But she is hardly “Sandy from the block” And this Chakrabarti guy is a Silicon Valley rich guy turned lefty. I wasn’t certain until I heard her start complaining about Ronald Reagan. She wasn’t BORN until two years after he left office! Where the hell did she decide to come up with THAT?? Chakrabarti, of course. She showed her ass in her opposition to the Amazon deal in Long Island City. A no-brainer. Like the $6 million in tax rebates for Amazon was sitting there in a pot some where, waiting to be disbursed? A cum laude Economics Major from BU??? She can’t find her own ass in the dark with both hands!!
With mentally disturbed people like her in leadership roles the country is doomed. How she ever got elected is a total enigma. All I can hope for is that voters see the light and get them out asap. Dan Shaughnessy
How did this retard get elected? How do any of these liberals get elected. With her and her associate lemmings in place we will see them all go over the cliff. Hopefully they dont cause those of us that have functioning brains to go down also. Dan Shaughnessy
We need to hang both of these traitors in the streets, immediately. No chances for the Democrats to cover for them, hang them now and start looking for the next traitors to hang. Time to start cleaning up our country!
U R 100% right.. fed up with hearing no ones above the law, YET NO ONE’S DOING THEIR JOB MAKING SURE THISE WHO’VE BEEN ABOVE THE LAW 4 FAR TOO MANY YEARS ARE BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE. It’s way past time to arrest, indict & put these corrupt criminals/so called Leaders of the left and some on the right in prison 4 LIFE. They’ve committed Treason & R Traitors to our country, our Constitution, our citizens, broken our laws, broken their Oath of office, consistently try to take our rights & our freedom away. Now they’ve entered into THE AMERICAN CITIZENS HOUSE & this is UNACCEPTABLE period as they spread their Socialist/Communism Agenda. This is OUTRAGEOUS. Get them out of OUR/THE LOYAL AMERICAN CITIZENS HOUSE, 4 They ARE NOT, I REPEST, NOT LOYAL & Have gone against our Constitution, our laws & our Citizens, PERIOD.
This is Trump’s fault……RIGHT????………….LMAO!!!!!!!
AOC is a total phony. She loves publicity, and the media gives her a pass. She won’t last long.
Voters right & left are sick to death of career politicians, smart ass lawyers, career bureaucraps, & corrupt academics in government are ready to vote for you or me or anyone else who cares to put their neck in the political hatestream media noose or Epstein style blackmail meatgrinder.
Saikat Chakrabarti is a subversive anti-American homosexual who has sex with Cenk Uygur and other libtards!
I’m so glad finally this guy is being looked at more closely. His goal is / was to replace moderate Democrats with the likes of Socialists (e.g. AOC). He is a libitard Socialist who thought he could get away with this crime.
They use the same crooks Trump uses. It’s not a democratic or republican party. The average American citizen loses either way. I am a dual citizen of Canada, who nobody hates, and America. I don’t want to leave the USA but the way it’s going, America may push me out even though I’ve been an American citizen. But I’m a legal immigrant Naturelized American citizen and a Canadian citizen by birth of Canada . I know most of you will probably tell me to go back where I come from. But if Canada wasn’t so damned expensive, I’d move there. A world study of best place to live on this planet, Canada is listed at number 1. America didn’t even make the top 25!