Upheaval: AOC's chief of staff and top spokesman quit

wshingtonexaminer ^ | 8/2/2019 | john gage

[bitt]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti and communications director Corbin Trent are both leaving her D.C. office.

“Saikat has decided to leave the office of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to work with New Consensus to further develop plans for a Green New Deal,” Trent told the Intercept Friday.

“We are extraordinarily grateful for his service to advance a bold agenda and improve the lives of the people in NY-14. From his co-founding of Justice Democrats to his work on the Ocasio-Cortez campaign and in the official office, Saikat’s goal has always been to do whatever he can to help the larger progressive movement, and we look forward to continuing working with him to do just that.”

[bitt]

campaign financing investigation?

[SaxxonWoods]

When your every utterance and facial expression is front-page news, who needs staff?

[SaxxonWoods]

When your every utterance and facial expression is front-page news, who needs staff?

[Liz]

SOURCE: thehill.com

In recent weeks, Chakrabarti tweeted that
<><> Pelosi is an ineffective legislator,
<><> a Native American lawmaker voted “to enable a racist system”
<><> moderate Democrats are modern-day segregationists because they backed a Senate border aid bill.

“That’s just a terrible statement to make. That’s a terrible statement to make,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), a Congressional Black Caucus member, said of Chakrabarti. “Somebody’s got to be held accountable. If my staff did something that was not right, then I have to handle my staff.”

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THIS IS BIG NEWS B/C Chakrabati is NOT your typical staff member. Read on.

How is it AOC was once slobbing up bar spills and is now in Congress wearing $2000 outfits, $600 shoes, bags and watches?

BACKSTORY: “Justice Democrats” and “Brand New Congress” are a group of Bernie Sanders ex-staffers who decided 2018 midterms
should be all about Bernie’s policies, finding 400 Bernies to dump into races. They held auditions. AOC was hired to run in NY.

NOTE
<><> “Brand New Congress” mastermind is Saikat Chakrabarti
<><> “Justice Democrats” is Cenk Uygur, a Turkish-born Muslim.

Making a pile of money musta been a huge incentive. Read on.

FAST FORWARD TO TODAY.......an FEC complaint was filed alleging AOC’s COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, created multiple private companies—LLCs—to siphon off campaign contributions from her various PACs for personal use......

BTW, AOC has a lot more in common with Bernie than socialism. Besides socialism (gag)....
AOC’s COS used to be Bernie’s....wait for it.....”Director of Organizing Technology.”

AND THIS—Saikat Chakrabarti, is a proven tech expert.
(A) He co-founded a web design tool,
(B) He built up the product team at the payment processor “Stripe”.........
(C) He then came to the Sanders campaign after (cough) growing disillusioned with the tech world.

Saikat Chakrabarti was Bernie’s Director of Organizing Technology. Even old man Bernie knew enough to hire a tech expert.

So, I guess (smirk) Chakrabarti’s tech skills musta come in mighty handy when donations to Bernie were wire-transferred to the DNC and ended up in 2016 candidate Hillary’s account.

Debbie W/S headed the DNC at the time and was ousted b/c of her bias for Hillary.

Course, none of us heard about any of this, but.....
<><> Chakrabarti-the-tech-whiz did find out about the DNC theft, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did speak to D/W/S about it, or to Debbie’s tech expert, Imran Awan, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did tell Bernie he was fleeced, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti WAS working for Bernie, wasnt he?

Now the stunning details about that FEC complaint:

The FEC complaint asserts that AOC’s COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, early on established two PACs that raised big bucks for AOC’s campaign:
<><> the “Brand New Congress PAC,” and,
<><> the “Justice Democrats PAC.”

After mucho money was raised from the progressive suckers, Chakrabarti systematically transferred $885,000+ in PAC contributions to his private companies with similar names:
<><> the “Brand New Campaign LLC,” and,
<><> the “ Brand New Congress LLC.”

Saikat Chakrabarti’s private companies, unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures.

NOTE WELL: it’s a much-used criminal act to enrich oneself, to open bank accounts using similarly named entities to siphon off money, to hide it from partners, associates, investors etc.

SIPHONINGS A CINCH It’s easy to siphon off money for oneself by putting checks into the new accounts with similar names, depositing checks that were made out to the original entity. Even your bank advises that if a check-writer “mis-spelled” your name, to just endorse the check with the correct name.

AND PRESTO: a check made out to Brand New Congress PAC, is deposited in the Brand New Congress LLC account.

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ANALYSIS -— Chakrabarti’s companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how AOC’s donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions, according to the FEC complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.

Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication “there’s something amiss.” They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning (A) the donations could have been pocketed, or, (B) used by the LLC’s to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.-—SNIP-—SOURCED FROM FR.

JUST WONDERING .....does Chakrabarti have a reputation among Democraps for facilitating the conversion of campaign donations?

Maybe we should ask millionaire landowner Socialist Bernie (smirk)?

[ptsal]

Who will be indicted first-—AOC or her former COS?

[unread]

Making a run for the border....

[Grampa Dave]

Ocasio-Cortez has served on the board of the dark money group’s “sister organization,” Justice Democrats, since December 2017.

Her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, has also been a Justice Democrats board member since December 2017, and also served as the political action committee’s executive director until February 2018, according to his LinkedIn.

Ocasio-Cortez’s attorney told Snopes on March 8 that she left Justice Democrats’ board in June 2018, but the PAC’s corporate filings with Washington, D.C., currently list her and Chakrabarti as “entity governors” of the group. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Saikat Chakrabarti listed as governors of Justice Democrats on March 14, 2019, at 4:55 pm. (Screenshot/DCRA)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Saikat Chakrabarti listed as governors of Justice Democrats on March 14, 2019, at 4:55 pm. (Screenshot/DCRA)

Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the Federal Election Commission that she and Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, controlled Justice Democrats while it simultaneously supported her primary campaign!

AOC = PLT Pompous Little Twit

Overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat’s chief of staff Puppet Master! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Amish? Innocent young liberal from NYC?

Not Really!: Ocasio-Cortez’s, boyfriend was paid $6,000 by a PAC owned by AOC’s Puppet Master, Saikat Chakrabarti, now her chief of staff, at a time “when her campaign was running out of money.”

The PAC is affiliated with Justice Democrats, a collaboration between Chakrabarti and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, Thompson noted.

[dontreadthis]

Pelosi is making moves to duck the Socialist label.

[lurk]

Sounds like they be just moved on to advance totalitarianism in other areas.

[Freedom4US]

Gotta love the Orwellian names leftists ascribe to their organizations.

One can be certain there ain’t gonna be no “Consensus” on the crap sandwich they wanna serve up, no way no how.

[Zathras]

Stuff -> Fan <- Stuff

[Graybeard58]

Outstanding reply.

[mewzilla]

What will be really interesting to see is who picks their replacements...

[SaxxonWoods]

“Who will be indicted first-—AOC or her former COS?”

So far Barr is two for two with “decline to prosecute” so any indictments are looking ‘pie in the sky’ at this point.

I’ve gone into “stop telling me and show me” mode.

[SharpRightTurn]

“the larger progressive movement”

Translated keyword: “commie.”

[lee martell]

He’ll still be phoning it in, behind the scenes.
Pay no attention to that commie behind the newly washed Iron Curtains!

[knarf]

I doubt it.

His only role was to get almost occasionally conscious ensconced in American politics.

Cenk uygar said on election night, "We are coming after YOU, democrats" ... and they foisted this one, the muzzie wench in minneapolis and a few others on us.

No, saikat will slink into the protective cacoon of stupid white people and continue his attempts to decimate the United States of America.

I fear to think it, but I don't think even President Trump has the two term time in office to rid our nation of this cancer.

I just hope and pray President Pence IS as strong as President Trump.

We might then have a chance.

[frank ballenger]

1st guy: They say somebody quit on AOC’s staff.
2nd guy: Who?
1st guy: Saikat Chakrabarti
2ans guy: Look, no need to swear at me I just couldn’t hear who quit.

[A strike]

Have those Communists got an even better host?