Lots and lots of money was raised from political action committees controlled by Ocasio-Cortez and her campaign manager----
Saikat Chakrabarti----now her congressional chief of staff.
Saikat Chakrabarti then established an LLC----a for-profit company that does not require reporting its finances.
Apparently with all the scrutiny Chakrabarti has since closed his company doors.
Chakrabarti may have closed down the LLC....but are the company's bank accounts still open?
B/c the LLC bank accounts were used to convert campaign donations to spending money for those involved including AOC. (details below)
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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,"
<><> the "Justice Democrats PAC."
After mucho money was raised, Chakrabarti systematically transferred $885,000+ in PAC contributions to his private companies with similar names:
<><> the "Brand New Campaign LLC,"
<><> the " Brand New Congress LLC."
Saikat Chakrabarti's LLC'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.
Actually, she went from being a radical leftist community organizer to becoming a radical leftist congresswoman.
Her job bartending is insignificant. But this is the part-time career that the media (and FReepers) tend to focus on. The media loves the bartender narrative because it allows them to ignore her activism as a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer. Many here focus on the bartender narrative because they think pouring drinks makes her stupid.
Bartending did not turn AOC into a communist. She was steeped in the tenets of latino socialism growing up. These beliefs were strengthened and solidified at Boston U. and then put into action working for the Bernie Sanders campaign.