It started when journalist Luke Thompson discovered that the 29-year-old’s boyfriend had a campaign email address.
Ocasio-Cortez insisted that he only had the campaign email address for the purpose of checking her calendar and was not on her staff.
But then it was discovered that her boyfriend did have a job working for her chief of staff during the campaign.
And on Monday it was discovered that that same chief of staff appears to have moved $1 million from a PAC he and Ocasio-Cortez run to his private companies.
Not to mention the fact that a campaign is not supposed to have any ties to the PACs that support them.
Both Ocasio-Cortez and her campaign manager Saikat Chakrabarti could be facing some significant prison time if they are guilty.
And now in an effort to cover her tracks apparently, she has gotten rid of the original email address that started the investigating.
“Fun fact: his email address no longer exists. Guess he doesn’t need calendar access anymore, eh @AOC?” Thompson wrote.
To think this all started from @ltthompso asking questions about an email address
Fun fact: his email address no longer exists. Guess he doesn’t need calendar access anymore, eh @AOC? pic.twitter.com/iWhtL8sb9n
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Watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center’s Government Integrity Project has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission.
The complaint alleges that Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti illegally funneled $1 million to companies he ran from a PAC he was in charge of, The Washington Examiner reported.
Chakrabarti’s campaigns raised $3.3 million and diverted more than $1 million to his...
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