Posted on 08/04/2019 12:23:12 PM PDT by gattaca
Federal government agencies are investigating alleged campaign finance misconduct by Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former chief of staff, who abruptly resigned on Friday, according to the New York Post.
The probe focuses on two political action committees started by Saikat Chakrabarti, concerns about which were first reported by the Washington Examiner in March. Chakrabarti left his post as chief of staff for Ocasio-Cortez along with communications director Corbin Trent, who is departing for the freshman congresswoman's 2020 reelection campaign.
Chakrabarti stirred up plenty of controversy during his tenure as the creative mind behind Ocasio-Cortez's campaign and strategist for the Green New Deal. He has sent out numerous tweets that started a clash between Ocasio-Cortez and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and many staffers and aides on Capitol Hill were not thrilled about his divisive behavior.
"People were not happy that he used his Twitter account to comment about members and the bills that he and his boss oppose," a senior House Democratic staffer told the New York Post. "There was a series of colliding and cascading grievances."
Chakrabarti also indicated that Pelosi was a weak leader in a series of tweets, and said in a now-deleted post that moderate Democrats were "hell-bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s."
The former chief of staff also criticized Pelosi for not moving forward in the direction of impeachment.
"Pelosi claims we can’t focus on impeachment because it’s a distraction from kitchen table issues," he tweeted July 6. "What is this legislative mastermind doing?"
Chakrabarti, who graduated from Harvard and made millions in the tech industry, founded two PACs — Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats — to rally behind liberal candidates in elections. However, Federal Election Commission filings showed he siphoned more than $1 million in political contributions into two private firms that he also owned.
Both PACs raised about $3.3 million in mostly small dollar donations in 2016 and 2017. FEC filings revealed that about one-third of the money was allocated to two private businesses with names nearly identical to the PACs, Brand New Congress LLC and Brand New Campaign LLC.
Chakrabarti also took a slash in his salary at $80,000 a year while Ocasio-Cortez increased the salaries of junior staffers to about $52,000 annually. The average salary for Chakrabarti's position pays $146,830 a year.
Congressional rules also exempted him from having to release his outside income because he made less than $126,000 as chief of staff.
Not that I have my tin foil hat on, but you wonder if those two shootings in Texas and Ohio had not happened yesterday, you can’t help but wonder if this would have been a bigger headline today for the Sunday morning shows?
I doubt if the MSM even cares.
No surprise. They are too amatuerish not to get caught at it.
Don’t mess with Nan!
What I see is this dude messed up the perception of demcrats about themselves and now he is being struck down by the deep state of Hillary, the same that did nothing when she blackballed Sanders with the DNC.
What did this guy do exactly that Hillary never did? She laundered bazillions through a charity. This dude opens two small business accounts and they crush him...
How could A Occasional Cortex chief of staff socialist/communist (same/same) Chakrabarti ever be guilty of this?
It’s not like the end justifies the means or anything, right?
I think in last weeks meeting between NaN and AOC - Pelosi told her to get rid of him
Sounds very similar to what Maya Cummings is doing, no?
He doesn’t need money, he owns homes in Maryland and Manhattan and has been a principal in two start-up companies. Reducing his salary allowed him to avoid financial disclosure rules.
He’s only interested in “social democrats” and he doesn’t need to be on staff to give AOC advice.
IRS Complaint Filed Against Cummings’ Wife saraacarter.com ^ | 8/1/2019 | Jennie Taer Posted on 8/1/2019, 11:55:19 PM by bitt
A watchdog group has filed a complaint with the IRS for the mishandling of a non-profit organization run by Rep. Elijah Cummings’ wife, Maya according to One America News’ Jack Posobiec. The findings are shocking. According to the report, the nonprofit group was “cutting deals” with special interest groups directly tied to Cummings’ House Oversight Committee. Maya runs her non-profit “Global Policy Solutions” along with a separate for-profit venture. The watchdog alleges her group “received $6.2 million in grants from various corporate backers including Google, JP Morgan, Prudential & Johnson and Johnson.”
The complaint also highlighted that Mrs. Cummings’ separate organizations overlap in leadership, addresses, facilities, projects, and clients. In Addition to this, according to the report, a complaint has been issued to the Maryland Attorney General. (video)
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ANALYSIS The IRS filed a complaint against the Cummings get-rich-quick operation
(a profit and a non-profit with the same name - a classic fraud technique).
The Cummings colluded to shakedown business before Cummings’ oversight committee. They strong-armed these businesses to pay up---or else. The businesses also were forced to hire Cummings wife as a “consultant” for millions more. Her only consulting expertse was being married to the man who could make it hard for them to do business.
The findings are shocking. According to the report, the Cummings nonprofit group was “cutting deals” with special interest groups directly tied to Cummings’ House Oversight Committee.
Maya runs her non-profit “Global Policy Solutions” along with a separate for-profit venture. The watchdog alleges her group “received $6.2 million in grants from various corporate backers including Google, JP Morgan, Prudential & Johnson and Johnson.”
The IRS complaint also highlighted that the Cummings made no attempt to camouflage their shakedowns......Mrs. Cummings’ separate organizations overlap in leadership, addresses, facilities, projects, and clients.
In addition to this, according to the report, a complaint has been issued to the Maryland Attorney General.
let me know when they are perp walked In case no one is paying attention for the last 30 months the doj, irs and Trump have an F in locking up powerful people.
Yep. Someone must have made a report behind his back to the FEC or FBI.
The Dems are sick of this guy so the usual deadlock at the FEC probably won’t save him. Good riddance.
If that is true and AOC knows this..... she will step up her attacks on Pelosi.
Which will be a good thing!
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