Ocasio-Cortez denies dark-money allegations in FEC complaint: ‘There is no violation’The FEC complaint asserts that Chakrabarti [Ocasio-Cortez's campaign manager] established two PACs, the Brand New Congress PAC and Justice Democrats PAC, and then systematically transferred more than $885,000 in contributions received by those PACs to the Brand New Campaign LLC and the Brand New Congress LLC -- companies that, unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures. The PACs claimed the payments were for "strategic consulting."
Although large financial transfers from PACs to LLCs are not necessarily improper, the complaint argues that the goal of the "extensive" scheme was seemingly to illegally dodge detailed legal reporting requirements of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which are designed to track campaign expenditures.
Critics said the arrangement appears unusual and should be probed.
"It sounds to a lot of people like that’s a way to skirt the campaign finance laws in this country," former Utah GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "And the FEC and the other regulators need to get in there and find out where was this money going – was it going to people’s pockets? Was it legitimate or not?”
In a nutshell, Ocasio-Cortez took funds (about $885,000) from one PAC she controlled, and put the funds in another LLC she owns. Both of which she has total control of. Apparently the only reason to move the funds is because she can use the funds in the new account without as much disclosure of how she spends it.
In many ways similar to how Hillary illegally set up a private e-mail server, rather than the far more secure SteteDepartment.gove website, so that she could avoid having her e-mail communications (i.e., Hillary's secret selling of State Department access to foreign governments, in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation) subject to disclosure in state records.
Ocasio-Cortes at the least has a lot of days in court ahead of her, and potentially some jail time. It's amazing how Democrats always posture about open government and accountability, and then turn out to be the most evasive of open government for themselves, with the most to hide. And when you're a constitutional republic-wrecking Bolshevik posing as a champion of freedom, you have a lot to hide. Some animals are more equal than others.
