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'Mediocre cocktail slinger' Ocasio-Cortez faces THIRD election ethics complaint as pro-Trump PAC's lawyer claims her chief of staff's firm illegally did cheap political work for AOC and a dozen other Democrats Conservative lawyer's FEC complaint says Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff engineered an illegal campaign funding scheme in 2018 She and Saikat Chakrabarti used his company, according to attorney Dan Backer, to work for her campaign and 12 others at far below-market prices Campaign laws consider the discount to be an 'in-kind' contribution that's subject to reporting and legal limits Backer and his organization, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, say...

EXCLUSIVE -- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been hit with another Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint, this one alleging she and her campaign manager operated a “subsidy scheme” that ran afoul of campaign finance laws. The crux of the complaint, which was given exclusively to Fox News in advance of its filing Wednesday, accused Ocasio-Cortez and her campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, of overseeing a "shadowy web" of political action committees (PACs) that allowed them to raise more cash than they could have legally.