AOC and COS Shakrabati.........the pain......and the a**.
Posted on 08/04/2019 7:00:48 AM PDT by dynachrome
The Feds are looking into possible campaign finance misdeeds by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff and lead rainmaker, who suddenly resigned Friday, federal sources told The Post.
The inquiry centers on two political action committees founded by Saikat Chakrabarti, the top aide who quit along with Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent,the sources said. Trent left to join the congresswoman’s 2020 re-election campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“AOC did not show up at a Bronx event on her schedule Saturday. Her office would not comment on the staff departures, and Chakrabarti did not return several messages. Trent declined comment.”
They are apparently willing to fall on their swords to protect AOC by distancing themselves, albeit a tad late.
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,” 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)?
Wonder if Saikat picked up the tip swiping habit from Occasional ?
‘Cept the tip jar was fed.gov’s and they’re taking eception to her thieving from their stash of stolen loot ?
Stay tuned ;-)
At this point, the Justice Democrats don’t need Chakrabarti micromanaging her. They’ve built up a support staff for her, and she can still be guided on what to do by phone and email (just use a burner or an encrypted message if it’s something that should stay hidden).
AOC was a big success for the radicalization of the Dem Party through focused attention on primaries. Time to fool another district.
AOC and COS Shakrabati.........the pain......and the a**.
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“They are apparently willing to fall on their swords to protect AOC by distancing themselves, albeit a tad late”
These two were the brains of the outfit. But I doubt Washington DC is lacking any leftist Puppet Masters to take their place.
looks like they gave AOC a heads up which is more then they did for Trump.
AOC's frickin' around tax dollars for staff salaries appear to be very calculated. She went from slobbing bar spills into Congress wearing $2000 outfit, $600 shoes, baga and watches. She's a typical liberal hypocrite----- never mentions how she manipulated policy in the US Congress to get her boyfriend on the govt gravy train. Digging reveals suspicious payments to AOC’s boyfriend began early.
FACTS ON FILE
<><> Absent a waiver from House Ethics, family members have to be volunteers to get official house.gov email addresses,
<><> AOC's boyfriend got a govt email address immediately
<><> AOC doesn’t believe in having unpaid govt workers; according to her COS they have no office volunteers.
<><> So boyfriend Roberts is designated as staff but also isn’t "officislly" on AOC’s staff,
<><> yet Roberts showed up in the House directory as processing into AOC's personal office as a staffer.
That explains why AOC was so determined to pay "volunteers"---she and the b/f would richly benefit.
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The NY POST also reported that her campaign organization "Brand New Congress PAC" paid Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend, Riley Roberts, for marketing services after the PAC was hired by her campaign. Using the third-party PAC to pay her boyfriend may have violated campaign-finance laws, a lawyer for the Coolidge Reagan Foundation told The Post. “It is totally legal, as a candidate, to hire family members, people you know to work for you. But they didn’t do that,” said Attorney Dan Backer. “Instead of paying him directly, they paid him through an intermediary — in order to obscure the fact that they paid him. The FEC should investigate and find out if that’s the case. That’s the allegation,” Backer added. The FEC is to investigate if the campaign violated finance laws that state campaign contributions “shall not be converted by any person to personal use.”
I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when Pelosi & AOC had their little ‘meeting’ .........
Taming of the Shrew – Following Pelosi Meeting AOC Top Aides Resign…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/03/taming-of-the-shrew-following-pelosi-meeting-aoc-top-aides-resign/
The progressive elements around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortz are framing the removal of the Justice Democrat leader, Saikat Chakrabarti, as a move to continue the movement beyond the landscape of AOC. However, in reality it looks like Nancy Pelosi is cracking the whip.
The ultra left-wing “Justice Democrat” movement activated to bring AOC onto the national stage. However, that same movement, led by Saikat Chakrabarti, was openly stating an objective to target incumbent democrats who were not falling into line behind the most severe messaging of the far-left.
Apparently Pelosi said: enough is enough.
WASHINGTON — Two top aides to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are leaving her congressional office, the freshman lawmaker said in a statement Friday.
Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, and Corbin Trent, her communications director, are departing, her statement said. Trent is joining the congresswoman’s campaign and Chakrabarti plans to join New Consensus, a non-profit that is promoting Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal. (more)
Part of the Jusice Democrat moonbat messaging revolves around convincing the world about the Green New Deal; a program founded upon accepting the end of human life on the planet in twelve years, unless the U.S. abandons fossil fuel energy. Apparently what happens in China and India doesn’t matter as much. Bad, bad ‘merica & America sucks.
The moonbat influence is so prevalent to the ideology of the party-base almost every presidential candidate was publicly affirming their support for the proposals of the AOC moonbat caucus. Obviously it doesn’t take a political expert to see how that was causing the 2020 candidate field to look like a bunch of raving mad idiots. [Just ask Bill Maher]
Thus, if Pelosi is going to retain her gavel; and you better believe it will only be removed by prying her fingers from it; the Speaker cannot let this nonsense continue.
More than likely there were a few presidential campaigns having discussions with the DNC about how ridiculous this had become. It seems the final straw that broke Pelosi’s back was the DCCC losing Executive Director Allison Jaslow, and her entire staff, because they just were not ‘woke’ enough for the moonbat activists.
Hell, even Barack Obama is now viewed as a right-wing fascist by the AOC faction who have sworn off breeding because, well, hell they’ve only got a dozen years left to live and they need their college tuition payments absolved before the planet implodes. Weird yes, but that’s the moonbat outlook.
The Democrats are in crisis mode as the platform requires keeping the impeachment nuts satiated, eliminating electricity and automobiles and saving the planet by removing straws from the juice boxes in Youngstown Elementary School. Unfortunately, forcing construction workers in Pennsylvania to eat sustainable algae cakes doesn’t appear to be a talking point Pelosi plans on pushing.
Pelosi is having a hard enough time convincing the AFL-CIO membership to give up their healthcare plan so that Honduran migrants can get free houses; and lately the SEIU is starting to question the value in paying higher taxes just so El Salvador can facilitate sending MS-13 gang members, and the socialists can import cultural exhibitions of medieval disembowelment. As Omar would say: ‘meh, some people chopped something’.
Yup, removing Saikat Chakrabarti is one step in a process that might take a while…
Liz: you are a treasure here at FR. Take a bow, baby.
Now, do you think this may be the start of the fall of AOC?
It’s a shame Pelosi is a left-wing moonbat because she could teach Republicans how to effective silence and disappear their enemies.
T/Y for the kudos…….
Now as to whether she’s headed for a fall, she’s been pretty resourceful at establishing herself as No1……..so it would be hard to dislodge her.
Remains to be seen if Chakrabati’s ousting will cause her to fumble.
But make no mistake......ousting him comes at a price for her. Nancy musta hit her hard.
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In June and July, Chakrabarti accused Pelosi of being a weak leader and said that moderate Democrats were racists, “hell-bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s.”
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Pelosi calling in chips from friends to have the spotlight shined on Chakrabarti?
This is rather old news, isn’t it? Info has been out there for a while now, if I’m not mistaken. To the tune of about a million or so.
I suspect Pelosi decided at that moment that she had no use for some diarrhea-colored misfit with a name that sounds like a medical condition found only in India.
Better pull his passport before he goes back to where ever he came from or back to his Boss China
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