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AOC pushes back against campaign finance complaint embroiling her chief of staff
Washington Examiner ^ | 03/05/19

Posted on 03/05/2019 2:21:45 PM PST by Liberty7732

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Tuesday denied allegations that two political action committees founded by her top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies.

The New York Democrat, a Democratic Socialist, pushed back against a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday — first reported by the Washington Examiner — raising questions about cash transfers from the PACs, which are overseen by her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti.

“There is no violation,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, when confronted by Fox News' Caroline McKee at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va. "No, no," she said when asked of potential hypocrisy over potential deviations from her 2018 campaign pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; cenkuygur; chakrabarti; davidkoller; fec; justicedemocrats; justicedemocratspac; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr; saikatchakrabarti; subhaschandrabose
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1 posted on 03/05/2019 2:21:45 PM PST by Liberty7732
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To: Liberty7732
a Democratic Socialist

Isn't that redundant?

2 posted on 03/05/2019 2:23:33 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Liberty7732

Curious if stupid is a qualifying excuse with the FEC.


3 posted on 03/05/2019 2:24:14 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Slyfox

Or an oxymoron.


4 posted on 03/05/2019 2:24:19 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Liberty7732

Lets have an investigation and see you’re for investigating Trump for nothing


5 posted on 03/05/2019 2:24:34 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Liberty7732

This chick with the Big Teeth is clearly in violation of campaign finance laws.

But so what? She will get away with it.


6 posted on 03/05/2019 2:25:10 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Liberty7732

The key takeaway is SHE PUSHES BACK.

She is actually Trumplike in that regard.
Don’t underestimate how many fans that will win her.


7 posted on 03/05/2019 2:25:56 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Liberty7732

She’ll have to pay a fine ... that’s all ... if that ...


8 posted on 03/05/2019 2:27:00 PM PST by dartuser
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To: rockinqsranch

“Stupid is as Stupid does.”


9 posted on 03/05/2019 2:27:07 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Slyfox

No, but it is oxymoronic.


10 posted on 03/05/2019 2:27:16 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Liberty7732

“It’s all like so confusing ... like what all the rules are ..”


11 posted on 03/05/2019 2:27:57 PM PST by dartuser
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To: Liberty7732

LOCK HER UP
LOCK HER UP
LOCK HER UP


12 posted on 03/05/2019 2:28:50 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Responsibility2nd

She will get away with it.

Or, the party may have decided she is really a loose
cannon and are letting her go overboard.

A loose cannon on a ships gun deck would roll madly with
each heel of the boat. Doing damage to surrounding guns
and perhaps the ship itself. Very dangerous to have to
try and catch and rope down!


13 posted on 03/05/2019 2:28:55 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Liberty7732

She looks NERVOUS, but she knows what we all know, nothing is going to happen to her unless Nancy Pelosi sees her as a huge liability for the Commie party..only then will she is a dead duck


14 posted on 03/05/2019 2:29:33 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Liberty7732

I thought that the CoS just bought a new $2 Million house.

Where did THAT money come from?


15 posted on 03/05/2019 2:29:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Liberty7732
AOC pushes back against campaign finance complaint embroiling her chief of staff

Well if the stink gets to AOC herself, she can claim ignorance and no jury in America would dispute that.

16 posted on 03/05/2019 2:31:58 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty ('DEPLORABLE' Charter Member of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - and DAMN Proud of it!.)
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To: Liberty7732

Of course there was no violation. The law only applies to Republicans.


17 posted on 03/05/2019 2:33:25 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: tet68
She will get away with it.

Yup. A million is chump change in the Democrat Swamp. And she has already proven she is not shy about dragging out Pelosi's dirty laundry and waving it around.

This chick is dangerously Machiavellian.


18 posted on 03/05/2019 2:33:33 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rockinqsranch

Curious if stupid is a qualifying excuse with the FEC.
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“Ignorance of the law is a valid AOC excuse” is one of the pillars of our legal system.

Along with Dems skate, conservative do time in prison.

And if stupid thoughts could be turned into money, then she could convert hers to dimes and retire now as a millionaire.


19 posted on 03/05/2019 2:34:11 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: Liberty7732

““There is no violation,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said”

The queen has spoken. Sorry Nancy, you are out.


20 posted on 03/05/2019 2:36:25 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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