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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mountaineer on June 07, 2019, 08:47:02 pm

Title: FEC Opens Investigation Into AOC-Tied Justice Democrats Regarding Disclosure Discrepancies
Post by: mountaineer on June 07, 2019, 08:47:02 pm
FEC Opens Investigation Into AOC-Tied Justice Democrats Regarding Disclosure Discrepancies
Madison Dibble
a day ago
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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) notified the Justice Democrats, a left-wing political action committee (PAC), that it was under investigation for a series of financial discrepancies.

The Justice Democrats is a PAC that was founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her current chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti. Both served as board members from the PAC’s conception until Ocasio-Cortez announced her congressional bid.  ...

The FEC issued a letter —which was originally obtained by the Washington Free Beacon —to the current board of the Justice Democrats demanding justification for several payments made to campaigns.

The letter notes that Justice Democrats issued payments to campaigns for the “retirement of debts” from the 2018 cycle, but the campaigns they paid did not list any debts on their own disclosures. As the commission noted, “a committee may only designate contributions to retire a candidate’s debts if those debts exist.”  ...
More at IJR (https://ijr.com/fec-opens-investigation-into-aoc-tied-justice-democrats/)
Title: Re: FEC Opens Investigation Into AOC-Tied Justice Democrats Regarding Disclosure Discrepancies
Post by: mountaineer on June 07, 2019, 08:48:39 pm
The Free Beacon story:
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AOC-Linked PAC Questioned on Contributions
Justice Democrats made donations to retire debt to committees that reported no debt
BY: Joe Schoffstall   
June 4, 2019 5:00 am

A political action committee linked to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y) is being questioned on potentially impermissible contributions that it made to a number of Democratic committees last year, according to a letter from the Federal Election Commission.

The FEC sent a request for additional information to the Justice Democrats PAC, a far-left group that helped elect Ocasio-Cortez to Congress, on May 30 after conducting its preliminary review of the PAC's amended July quarterly report from 2018. Ocasio-Cortez was listed as a governor of the group until recently. ...
Full story of AOC shenanigans. (https://freebeacon.com/politics/aoc-linked-pac-questioned-on-contributions/)
Title: Re: FEC Opens Investigation Into AOC-Tied Justice Democrats Regarding Disclosure Discrepancies
Post by: austingirl on June 07, 2019, 09:08:18 pm
Ocasio-Cortez and Saikat Chakrabarti, a co-founder of Justice Democrats who is now her chief of staff, were both listed as governors of the group until March, when they were quietly removed in filings to D.C.'s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.
At this time, the PAC was facing increased scrutiny over nearly $1 million worth of transfers to limited liability companies started by Chakrabarti, as detailed in a complaint filed to the FEC by the National Legal and Policy Center, which referred to the PAC as a "slush fund."


The bartender and her pal are up to their eyeballs in corruption.