Originally published at: REPORT: Senior Cortez Staffer Accused of ‘Funneling’ $1 MILLION of Donations into Private Accounts | Sean Hannity
A government watchdog group lodged an official complaint with the Federal Election Commission this week; accusing a top aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of “funneling” $1 million in campaign donations to his “private accounts.”
“New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Saikat Chakrabarti, the progressive firebrand’s multimillionaire chief of staff, apparently violated campaign finance law by funneling nearly $1 million in contributions from political action committees Chakrabarti established to private companies that he also controlled,” reports Fox News.
“The FEC complaint asserts that Chakrabarti established two PACs, the Brand New Congress PAC and Justice Democrats PAC, and then systematically transfered more than $885,000 in contributions received by those PACs to the Brand New Campaign LLC and the Brand New Congress LLC — companies that, unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures,” adds the article.
“It appears ‘strategic consulting’ was a mischaracterization of a wide range of activities that should have been reported individually,” the complaint states.
Read the full report at Fox News.
