The New York congresswoman raised a hefty $2 million for her 2018 election while refusing to take money from business-related political action committees. At the same time, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign committee and two PACs paid almost $900,000 to a consulting company for campaign services, providing few
-- Democratic firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rode into office railing against the influence of big money and hidden donors in U.S. elections. Yet the political operation that helped elect her to Congress was itself less than transparent -- exposing her to attacks from conservative foes.
The intricate ties and the lack of transparency have opened her to charges of hypocrisy and prompted complaints to the Federal Election Commission by conservative groups, though the allegations may amount to little more than paperwork violations. The complaint getting the most attention was brought March 4 by the National Legal and Policy Center, a right-leaning nonprofit focusing on ethics issues. The nub of the charge is that Ocasio-Cortez and the two PACs -- Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats -- violated federal election law in paying $885,735 to the company, Brand New Congress LLC. The PACs raised that money from individual donors.
Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and Silicon Valley entrepreneur who co-founded Mockingbird, a web-design tool, and was involved in the startup of payments processor Stripe Inc. He, Ocasio-Cortez, and her spokesman, Trent, all worked on Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign. Trent also worked for Justice Democrats before joining the Ocasio-Cortez campaign.
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